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

• 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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