Comment on How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying
GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 1 day agoIt’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?
vithigar@lemmy.ca 1 day 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.
catloaf@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I don’t think it’s hot enough for that.