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

UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• bitwolf@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I always rant about tech moving to Austin.

  They need low heat, reliable power, and an abundance of water.

  Texas is literally none of those things.

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  • Soapbox@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    We have low regulations though. Which is why they do it.

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• baltakatei@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Industrial cooling is all about evaporating some liquid into gas. For evaporative coolers, that liquid is water and works best if the air is dry and water is plentiful (the absurd part). If you don’t have water or the air is so humid that evaporation is difficult, the liquid is expensive refrigerant which must recycle back into liquid in a closed loop with a gas compressor that pumps the waste heat into the air through forced convection heat exchangers (big fans blowing air past hot refrigerant-filled pipes), all of which consumes a lot of energy.

  Ideally, we’d live in a post scarcity society in which huge arrays if solar panels would provide electricity to run closed-loop refrigerant plants that would consume zero water to cool our data centers.

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  • UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Vapor chamber with the river.

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• pressanykeynow@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There’s only one obvious answer to that question in a capitalism world. Because it’s cheaper than other places. Why is it cheaper for the corporations in the driest places where common people need to stop using showers is also obvious.

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  • UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Less regulations also

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• NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Because that usually means it’s hot and sunny so things grow well if you can get water to it.

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