There’s a chance you saw this story, most likely on your social media feed. Jeff Bezos, head of Amazon and builder of many thirsty data centres, purportedly said that “human water consumption is limiting AI’s potential”.
The full quote included in the article at The Print, a large Indian media outlet, is rage-inducing:
“Biological limits are real, but digital potential is infinite. If we starve our data infrastructure of cooling resources just to sustain baseline human comfort, we are actively delaying the birth of a super-intelligence that could solve all of our resource problems in the first place.