Comment on OpenAI plans massive UAE data center project
Libra@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Hm, yeah, let’s build a giant datacenter that needs a ton of power and water in the desert, that’s a great plan.
Comment on OpenAI plans massive UAE data center project
Libra@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Hm, yeah, let’s build a giant datacenter that needs a ton of power and water in the desert, that’s a great plan.
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 1 month ago
Cheap energy?
Libra@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
I dunno the UAE’s energy situation, maybe they installed a shitload of solar in the desert and are practically giving away electricity, but it still seems stupid to build anything water-intensive in a desert. I lived in Albuquerque, NM in the late 90s/early 2000s and they had a big Intel fabrication plant out there, in the desert, using so much goddamned water that they were depleting the water table. But they don’t care as long as it’s cheap today and probably cheap tomorrow. Expensive eventually because of resource depletion is a problem for future quarterly reports.