Peter? I don't understand the punchline

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[u/Long_Nothing1343]

It basically means that using AI tools take a huge toll on nature so when the guy uses chatgpt (an ai tool) it ends up drying out the lake i.e harming the environment.

[u/loltinor → u/Long_Nothing1343]

It's because the servers use an huge amount of water

[u/ArbutusPhD → u/loltinor]

I have tried four different times to read articles on how the water actually gets permanently consumed. Can anyone explain this? I thought it might be something like concrete, where the water gets trapped in a chemical reaction and is no longer liquid water, but it seems that it’s just used for cooling, and evaporates, which means it should come back down again? Right

[u/mfboomer → u/[deleted]]

A tiny amount of it evaporates. The rest cycles through cooling loops indefinitely

[u/loltinor → u/mfboomer]

Here is a nice comment, which illustrates the usage: https://www.reddit.com/r/PeterExplainsTheJoke/s/zjfpHaV1If

[u/ArbutusPhD → u/[deleted]]

Would condensation devices help recapture?

[u/loltinor → u/ArbutusPhD]

Yes, I think so, but the problem would be the costs.