I thought the majority of their water consumption is indirect via electricity consumption. If we could stop burning freaking coal that would be a start.
But yes, also stop using potable water for evaporative cooling!!
The infrastructure thats needed isnt always there, nor the people to run or build it.
You cant power it only off solar now because its so far north the array would need to be crazy big, and wouldn’t be enough in the winter.
Also even as you go far north summers can still be hot and you’d still need a way to cool it during those times which will require the same water flow capacity even if its for less overall days, so you now need to build 2 cooling systems instead of 1.
It still seems crazy to build these things where they often do, but going somewhere really cold isnt simple.
Edit: also sovereignty of the data center. A US company would prefer to keep it in the US which would give Alaska as an option.
Ah so they need to have close access to power stations to rinse them, and close enough to civilisation to be able to staff and maintain them? I can’t see a good outcome here.
Once again: stop letting them use potable fucking drinking water it makes no sense
I thought the majority of their water consumption is indirect via electricity consumption. If we could stop burning freaking coal that would be a start.
But yes, also stop using potable water for evaporative cooling!!
I’m dumb as a brick - why can’t they build the AI centres in very cold regions and just pump air in and out?
Countries in cold regions have governments and laws.
The answer is always money
The infrastructure thats needed isnt always there, nor the people to run or build it.
You cant power it only off solar now because its so far north the array would need to be crazy big, and wouldn’t be enough in the winter.
Also even as you go far north summers can still be hot and you’d still need a way to cool it during those times which will require the same water flow capacity even if its for less overall days, so you now need to build 2 cooling systems instead of 1.
It still seems crazy to build these things where they often do, but going somewhere really cold isnt simple.
Edit: also sovereignty of the data center. A US company would prefer to keep it in the US which would give Alaska as an option.
Ah so they need to have close access to power stations to rinse them, and close enough to civilisation to be able to staff and maintain them? I can’t see a good outcome here.