Comment on How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying
dditty@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day agoI read somewhere recently that AI data center open loop water cooling systems drain 100 million liters of freshwater a day and evaporate it away.
MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Would you mind sharing where you read that?
dditty@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
This isn’t the article I read but it has tons of info about this:
bloomberg.com/…/2025-ai-impacts-data-centers-wate…
GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
It’s so annoying when you try to discuss this because often a gaggle of idiots come out and point, superficially, that water gets recycled into nature. They always ignore the cost of making that water fit for human usage.
trashboat@midwest.social 1 day ago
I’m not very well read on this so I could very well be off-base, but couldn’t you leverage the heat as a means to desalinate saltwater instead of using freshwater and letting it evaporate?