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

• kassiopaea@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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• Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Because it’s cheap and easy.

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  • fullsquare@awful.systems ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    sounds like we need to charge them more for water

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    • Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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• spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  most effective form of heat transfer

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• fullsquare@awful.systems ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  it wasn’t a problem before they started doing this

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• MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Because line must go up

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