Are you ready do replace water by bits?

The last thing humanity needed was another fresh water intensive process, and that is what widespread generative AI is. ChatG*T alone allegedly uses 39 million gallons of fresh water a day, to cool down its servers. It is just one of a large number of AI systems. These are just estimates, btw. Additionally, generating a single 5-sec AI video consumes energy equivalent to running a microwave for 3.5 hours. More complex tasks require much more. Most energy production, including oil, require huge water intakes at some step, so increasing electricity demand is also putting stress in fresh water supply. That is another horror story altogether. You see, you can live without food for quite a bit, not without water. The new generation loves to exercise and is correctly told to hydrate. You are talking about hundreds of millions training daily and drinking more water than usual. Additionally, almost every manufacturing process requires large freshwater quantities. Then there is agriculture and livestock breeding, which also require large quantities of water. The world's surface is made up mostly of water. So, you say, what is the problem? Well only 3% is fresh water, a lot of it still tied in glaciers. Saline water is useless for almost every human need: it cannot be drank, cannot be used in industrial processes, cannot be used to cool AI servers. Seawater is too corrosive and has different properties than fresh water. Desalinating seawater also demands a lot of electricity and energy. In context, AI consumes about 4 liters (a little over a gallon) to do a simple 1,000-word translation. At the top of my game I was able to translate 10k words a day, which would mean 40 gallons of water! I DO NOT DRINK 40 GALLONS OF WATER A DAY... Do the math. Multiply by billions, and you may conclude that this will eventually become a problem. Unless new chips and new servers that consume little energy are invented REAL FAST, we are again heading for a crisis of humongous proportions. Don't make this political. This is pure fact and common sense. I suppose that powers that be do not realize that Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations was predicated in the concept of scarcity of resources. I guess we should all stop taking showers, flushing, watering the plants, washing the cars. Halting eating activities is also a great idea. Doing the laundry is also wasteful: you are better off doing a new caricature or avatar.