Comment by Arnt

Yes, so what change do you want, and are you going to act accordingly or just flail your arms meaninglessly?

I assume that you, personally, have a car, or will buy one in your lifetime. Someone produces that car, and the production uses about 10⁵l of water. A little more generally, depending on what kind of car. If you count the water use of a modern LLM in the same way, that purchase corresponds to approximately one LLM query per minute for the rest of your life.

If you don't care for cars, pick another product and do the math yourself. A pair of jeans maybe. It's really hard to do the math and find a product that doesn't use much more water than a year's worth of heavy AI use. So if it's water you care about, you have a lot of things you can affect much better.

If you'd rather blame an outgroup, bigco execs will do. Or Wall Street.