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by tecleandor 367 days ago
He's not a first-party source about energy or water use, he's not the utilities provider (except for certain small percentage, like the dirty gas turbines they're buying, I guess).

He could easily have said: "In our XXX data center we spend xxxx kWh a month, xxx cubic meters of water go in, xxx go out, we do XXX billions of tokens, so x cost per token." Then people can say if he's missing information or he's not taking certain factors in consideration.

"their essay for them requires 0.000085 gallons of water" means nothing. What's an essay? How big? What model is it using? What are you considering for the water consumption?