Comment on Tucson City Council votes 7-0, unanimously to kill AI Data Center
Zanathos@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoIt worked well until there was a component failure, requiring a whole farm to be taken down to replace said failed components. This is why they dropped the project.
Jhex@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They didn’t think of that when designing this?
Zanathos@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m sure they did, and they wouldn’t take the farm down until there was X% failure, but the amount of time and effort it took to perform those repairs made it unfeasible.
drmoose@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What do you think research is?
Jhex@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
you don’t need to jump off a building to research gravity…
the specific issue that is claimed to have made the entire project unviable is easily spotted a mile away
drmoose@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
How are you going to evaluate long term effects salt water has on a system without practical experiments? They clearly have the money and its much easier and efficient to launch an real MVP than to design a complex set of simulations and tests.