• Veltoss@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Yeah it’s a “this is cheaper and we’re greedy” problem but people will add this to their AI fearmongering and hating circlejerks.

      Apparently they’re looking into nuclear reactors for this which doesn’t waste as much water from what I understand.

      • lud@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        I don’t understand how a nuclear reactor could cool a datacenter. Could you explain?

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          1 year ago

          Could supply power for better A/C?

          I admit that doesn’t make sense, but then neither does it make sense to cool a data center with evaporative water cooling as if it were a hit-and-miss engine from the 1910’s, so I dunno.

          • lud@lemm.ee
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            1 year ago

            Cooling with evaporative cooling does make some sense since it works. It’s absolutely not ideal though.

            It should totally be a closed water (or other fluid) loop and where possible build datacenters in cooler climates.

            • V H@lemmy.stad.social
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              1 year ago

              Latency limits datacenter placement a lot, but for batch jobs like AI training it’s certainly an option.