Kylie Robison contests claims that Empire of AI originated public concerns over AI data center water usage, linking to earlier coverage from other outlets
Andy Masley plans a historical account challenging conventional narratives.
@AndyMasley Really appreciate your work
Andy Masley@AndyMasleyThis is the shape of the post, which gives you an idea of what I think of the situation
#1046Kylie Robison@KYLIEBYTES@giffmana that is just so so so not true
Shakeel@ShakeelHashimIt is particularly ironic that this video is from the Washington Post, which was spreading water misinformation long before Hao’s book:
#1482Pete Skomoroch@PETESKOMOROCHThe publisher of @_KarenHao’s book should be penalized with massive fines for not fact checking her lies about water usage and for not pulling the book from the market. Look at the chaos she’s caused:
#1735Andy Masley@ANDYMASLEYThis is the shape of the post, which gives you an idea of what I think of the situation
Andy Masley@AndyMasleyI need to write a quick armchair history of the data center panic bc imo a lot of common wisdom's developing on it that's wrong. In my opinion Empire of AI didn't actually have much effect on the water discourse for example. Lot to say, will try to get it out soon
I take credit as the first guy to call this problem fake, in this blog post which is my full summary if you wanna go crazy deep on the problem https://blog.andymasley.com/p/the-ai-water-issue-is-fake
Andy Masley@AndyMasleyMy face when AOC said some people are saying this is a "fake" issue