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

• Thoath@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If it’s truly a closed loop, why do you need a lake, a true closed loop has zero need for local water sources, else there’s some sort of negative that they’re compensating for which, in case of local water sources, there’s not enough infrastructure if any of that water leaves the system faster than it enters

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  • lime@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    to be the other end of the heat exchanger?

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• Thoath@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Water exchange above large bodies of water causes thermal dynamic exchanges deliberating speeds of wind currents

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  • lime@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    that’s not really a big factor.

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    • Thoath@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah because you’ve measured the water intake and export of every large body of water I forgot you’re obviously an expert who knows how to read when a data center takes more water than a town, love your stern optimism, maybe like, wander off somewhere else so you feel important in your views, because it ain’t with me here bud

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      • lime@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        no, you obviously don’t want people to talk to you. that’s fair.

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