Comment on Imagine not being able to shower, because AI slop generator machines need that water!

• frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is the right answer. They use evaporative cooling. Which does save a lot of power so they can claim to be “green”.

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  • bitwolf@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hmm, I wonder if that plays into the wild and frequent thunderstorms in Texas now.

    Its got to be the data centers or global warming overall (and its shifting of the Jetstream’s).

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• SL3wvmnas@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As long as it is cheaper to buy water, then evaporate it, big firms will continue to do so.

  With a COP of around 15 and up it is difficult to argue with the economy of this.

  Local regulation would be required, but that would need politicians who don’t suck.

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