Chile residents stage "human AI" day to show data centers' water use
What happened
A Hacker News front-page post on November 3 describes how Quilicura, Chile, in the Maipo River basin, has hosted a cluster of AI data centers since the early 2010s. Cooling servers uses large amounts of water, and on top of the climate crisis Chile faces a severe drought expected to last until 2040. Residents launched the Quili AI campaign, spending a day manually acting as "human AI": answering prompts and making content with local artists to show the local impact of data center water use.
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- Hacker News front pageQuili AI
智利基利库拉居民发起 Quili AI 活动，用一天时间手动扮演“人类 AI”回应提示词、与本地艺术家创作内容，以呈现 AI 数据中心耗水对当地的影响。基利库拉位于迈波河流域，自 2010 年代初起成为 AI 数据中心聚集地，服务器冷却消耗大量水资源，叠加气候危机，智利面临预计持续至 2040 年的严重干旱。
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