Comment on How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying

• GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • trashboat@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?

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    • vithigar@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      While desalination does need a lot of energy it’s dealing with the waste brine that’s the bigger problem when actually planning one. You can’t just dump it back into the ocean without killing a huge swathe of marine life.

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    • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t think it’s hot enough for that.

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