Empire of AI's datacenter water figure is off by ~4,500x: liters vs cubic meters
altryne · x · 2026-08-30
Researcher Andy Masley found that the bestselling AI book Empire of AI made a critical datacenter water usage error — treating liters as cubic meters, inflating the figure by roughly 4,500x. The mistake undermines the book's water-panic narrative about datacenters. Masley broke down the numbers, item by item, in a ThursdAI podcast interview.
More from Fun
- FIFA-style robot soccer game built with open-source RL policies — gaganghotra_ · 2026-08-30
- Claude Generates Walkable Gas Station at Dawn with Pure Code — prasenx · 2026-08-30
- Author creates village of little people with their own procedural language — gwendall · 2026-08-30
- Runway Game of Horse entry features illegal plot twist — umesh_ai · 2026-08-30
- Senior engineer definition: Hating microservices and monoliths equally — vboykis · 2026-08-30
- Industrial LLM history: a parade of Google papers plus OpenAI's yolo research preview — binarybits · 2026-08-30