MIRI researcher warns automated AI factories could literally boil the oceans for coolant
JacquesThibs · x · 2026-10-03
Nate Soares of MIRI tweeted his own take on AI water use worries — at a far more extreme scale: once an automated supply chain is running, automated factories build more automated factories producing hyperefficient datacenters, which could cover the continents and literally boil the oceans for coolant.
JacquesThibs quote-tweeted it with a pun, reframing "Swarm" as "Super warm."
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