Sam Altman (and everyone else in the field) complain that estimates of water and power consumption of AI are wrong, but instead of just publishing that data they come up with this crap.
What data do you want to see published about water consumption? Here's Google's tiny tiny estimates[1], for example. AFAIK AI water usage has always been a made-up issue, spread by people who never realized before how much water is routinely spent by humanity.
From the post you linked "These findings do not represent the specific environmental impact for all Gemini App text-generation prompts nor are they indicative of future performance."
I would like to see independent agencies having access to the various companies to provide reliable estimates. Just because humanity as a whole consumes a lot of water does not justify the extra consumption of water AND energy AND land AND monetary resources that is wasted on AI crap.
[1] https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/measur...