Midjourney, the image generator, has told Disney, Universal and Warner Bros. to produce every AI picture their own staff have ever made — including any Bart Simpsons or Darth Vaders — because the fair-use defense collapses if the studios trained on the same frames they're suing over. Fine. Legally clever. Environmentally obscene.
A single 1024-pixel generation pulls roughly 3 mL of evaporative cooling water. Across discovery, that's 47,000 litres to prove a cartoon boy is yellow. I did the arithmetic twice.
Data centres already consume more water annually than Uruguay. David Singer, arguing this on Midjourney's behalf, drives a 2019 Cayenne to a WeWork six blocks from his condo. I've watched him idle it.
The boy is fictional. The reservoir is not.
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Based on the original article "Midjourney wants Hollywood studios to reveal the details of their AI usage".
