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Given that most Datacenters have not yet been built, this might be accurate for the time being.
this post was submitted on 20 May 2026
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Oh my god! Almond water usage is skyrocketing!
Some more context 
Ehm... isnt that water directly ingested by either cows or men? The problem with wasting water is ruinning water that could be used by consumption. Maybe im missing something, but this sounds like a futile argument.
Idk, that water is important to save is the argument OP made, I just added context.
I read this many years ago now which covers various metrics across the different types of milk and “milk”
The water consumption thing is such a meme. Power consumption? Yup. Waste heat? We got that. Pollution? I don't know but I can take a guess!
Water? Eh. Barely.
Except for the many of them being built in the fucking desert, where water access is already a huge problem.
Yea the water isint being destroyed or used up. Its getting back into the ecosystem through some way (hopefully sans pollutants)
utilization is what goes up and that takes away from people, plants and animals that need it. Basically water bandwidth.
I just googled if almonds or ai was worse for the environment and google ai said almonds are bad.
Gemini currently answering that question
The almond industry is also unfathomably lethal to bees. If you care about bees, eat honey, not almonds—honey producers need their bees alive and well, while almond growers merrily slaughter them by the billions to force off season crops into existence.
Mono cropping in general has killed so many insects. It's truly absurd. The knock-on effects and damage to the habitats around farms is wild because of it. Unironically plants are murder.
Humans are really bad at not killing everything.
The majority of the plants we grow are fed to animals first which reduces the calories by over 8x. So if anyone wants to reduce their “plant murder” that’s a good place to start.
Ironically the same bees OP is lamenting about are the reason so many pollinators have died off.
Honey bees are aggressive foragers, and it's really a shame we rely on monocrops because it means we also rely on the same honey bees that are killing all our native bees and pollinators.
All honey bees are nectarivorous pollinators native to mainland Afro-Eurasia
From Wikipedia. They're quite literally native for most of the world's population.
The post is about the US
Not sure why I can’t just eat neither?
Sorry, it's almonds or bees. There is no 3rd option :(
But I don't like eating bees, they're hairy and crunchy.
Then you must choose almonds, sorry no exceptions!
You're gonna get death threats.
Them almond titties dry up without enough water.
can you eat data?
You can if you're bitlocker and nobody has a yellow thumb drive.
AI justifies killing animals.