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I haven't done the math but i feel like a 10% increase in tire wear is probably offset by a 90% reduction in brake dust and not burning 10 000+ liters of diesel per year.
by yourusername · Oct 6, 2026
Well no, but even with the gas prices jumping the way they are, that is a much more predictable cost than AI spend. Drive 250km, in 2015 Volvo truck is X liters of fuel at X cos…
by mrweasel · Oct 5, 2026
40% of US corn goes to biofuel (ethanol), contributing less than 4% of US fuel supply. With soybean oil it's even worse, 40% contributes 1%. Converting all farmland currently us…
by nbadg · Oct 5, 2026
+1 to both. Elaborating a bit: 1 acre-foot is 325,851 gallons or 1,233,482 liters. For easier mental handling: 4 acre-feet are roughly 5 million liters or 5,000 cubic meters.
by Cockbrand · Oct 5, 2026
OK - “often do” was wrong. There are cases where local communities’ water supplies was impacted by data center overconsumption, but they aren’t the norm [1]. A problem you’re no…
by tylerhou · Oct 2, 2026
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The litre or liter is a metric unit of volume. It is equal to 1 cubic decimetre (dm3), 1000 cubic centimetres (cm3) or 0.001 cubic metres (m3). A cubic decimetre occupies a volume of 10 cm × 10 cm × 10 cm and is thus equal to one-thousandth of a cubic metre. Read more on Wikipedia