Comment on How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water?

MantisToboggon@lazysoci.al ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• planish@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why would they design around evaporative cooling when water consumption is a problem?

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  • kassiopaea@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Because evaporative cooling is much cheaper and easier to accomplish at scale, and megacorps don’t care about long-term resource constraints until it begins to affect their wallets.

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      also places in red states allow for free or cheap polluting, and waste.

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  • Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Because it’s cheap and easy.

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    • fullsquare@awful.systems ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      because it’s cheap, easy, compact, well understood, and makes numbers look good. number in question is ratio of energy used by entire facility to energy used by silicon only (i forgor how it’s called). alternative is dissipating heat from radiators, but this makes this number like 3. evaporative cooling makes this number closer to 1.2

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    • Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      sounds like we need to charge them more for water

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      • Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Instead, WE are paying more for water and power to subsidize them.

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  • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Because they are assholes who hate the environment. The same reason they are using fossil fuels to power their slop centers instead of renewables.

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  • MantisToboggon@lazysoci.al ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    most effective form of heat transfer

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  • fullsquare@awful.systems ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    it wasn’t a problem before they started doing this

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  • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Because line must go up

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