Imagine not being able to shower, because AI slop generator machines need that water!

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• JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My country is int he middle of a data center boom, fuelled by the usual royal and political, uh, inputs. We also have seasonal droughts, which often result in water rationing and angry people upset at the mismanagement of our resources. Wonder which will give way first.

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• psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Why can’t they use the shit and piss water to cool their shit instead of asking people to cut back on water usage?

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  • sartalon@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They can.

    My wife is working on a solar project whose off taker is a data center that is doing exactly this.

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• Snowclone@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Is cooling water not reusable? Shouldn’t these be closed systems?

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  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Apparently closed loop systems are not good enough for these kinds of applications, and often instead use evaporative. Which kind of logical, since they’re not running a single factory overclocked GPU with a top of the line desktop CPU, but a cluster of factory overclocked GPUs with a server CPU.

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    • dgriffith@aussie.zone ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Apparently closed loop systems are not good cheap enough

      There I fixed that for you.

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    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So they build the computing centers in hot areas with water scarcity and make the air hot-humid?

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• JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh, and THEN, the AI will ask you to go take a shower if you’re feeling dry, dirty or thirsty. I mean after telling you why taking a shower is good, why people take showers, which celebrities took showers the past week and asks if you want to ads taking a shower to next week’s reminders.

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• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If you live in Texas, leave.

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  • Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I wish… We get over a thousand new residents a day. It’s awful.

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• LordWiggle@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yes that’s what Americans voted for.

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• DivineDev@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So genuine question, how is a datacenter needing water equivalent to showering? When people shower, the water gets dirty and needs to be cleaned. When water is used to cool servers, it gets warm but that should not be a problem, it doesn't need to go through a water treatment facility afterwards (?)

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  • WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They use potable water and they use evaporative cooling.

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  • davad@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I have no idea what the infrastructure setup is like for cooling that data center, but one way of water cooling is to take in cool water and dump the hot water. If you do this in your home, it’s an “open loop geothermal heat pump.” You pull in water from a well, heat or cool the water with your AC heat exchanger, then pump it back into the ground or into the sewer.

    www.geojerry.com/aboutopenloop.html

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  • sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The water may be treated with anticorrosives.

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• fox2263@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Newer aerated shower heads help with that 👀

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• eatham@aussie.zone ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What does a data center need that much water for?

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  • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    To compensate for the fact that Texas is a stupid place to build something that needs a lot of cooling

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  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Cooling. Even closed loops evaporate a lot.

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    • SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Closed loops evaporate stuff all. This is 100% from evaporative cooling towers.

      If they were using DX or air-to-water chillers the water usage would be negligible. Like how often you top up the radiator in your car.

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