@benda @nus @cmdr_nova So, just a reminder, this is not all AI servers. I have run multiple AI systems on my computer right here, even trained a couple. They were not quick and they were not highly advanced, and training took hours, if not days, but they ran on this laptop. The specific systems they are talking about in these articles are like, the server-farms on which chat GPT instances are trained, and which are used to run single queries from huge numbers of people quickly enough to justify going over the cloud and not just running it locally. So, this isn't really a critique of AI enthusiasts at home or smaller level applications, this is a critique of capitalism deciding that keeping the models absolutely restricted was more important than reasonable use of water.