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Critics Furious Microsoft Is Training AI by Sucking Up Water During Drought (futurism.com)
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[–] CADmonkey 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could supply power for better A/C?

I admit that doesn't make sense, but then neither does it make sense to cool a data center with evaporative water cooling as if it were a hit-and-miss engine from the 1910's, so I dunno.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cooling with evaporative cooling does make some sense since it works. It's absolutely not ideal though.

It should totally be a closed water (or other fluid) loop and where possible build datacenters in cooler climates.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Latency limits datacenter placement a lot, but for batch jobs like AI training it's certainly an option.