Comment on How Big Tech is swallowing the AI industry
Pacmanlives@lemmy.world 4 months agoBoil an ocean or two trying to cool their LLM farms? news.microsoft.com/…/project-natick-underwater-da…
Comment on How Big Tech is swallowing the AI industry
Pacmanlives@lemmy.world 4 months agoBoil an ocean or two trying to cool their LLM farms? news.microsoft.com/…/project-natick-underwater-da…
Badeendje@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Such a waste… all that heat could be used for something.
bamboo@lemm.ee 4 months ago
How’s a data center going to use a lot of hot air? Maybe they could use specialized heat pumps to condense it even more and spin some turbines, but the efficiency would be extremely low and probably not worth the investment. Best option is probably to just heat a few adjacent buildings in the winter.
Badeendje@lemmy.world 4 months ago
No I mean if stuff like this was built in better locations the waste heat could be used by … another company or to warm homes…
bamboo@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I understand what you’re saying, I just don’t think it’s easy to deliver such low density heat in a useful way. Large datacenters are located away from residential land because they can be unpleasant to live near, and while businesses could be close by, what industries can utilize a huge volume of ~100 degree air?