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Jensen Huang sends in the robot ducks to sell Nvidia's AI-everywhere vision
(www.theregister.com)
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Pairs well with that report about Amazon having billions of dollars worth of GPUs in storage because they don’t have DCs to put them in. At least these come pre-packaged in a container you can just park somewhere!
That’s the equivalent daily water use of 375,000 people (UK figures). Obvious next question is “yes but how much water are you still using after that?”
So wait, if you recategorize all the hardest parts as "preparing the site" then the project speeds up significantly?
So the datacenters do use a massive amount of water.
Just as AI and quantum computing that doesn’t suck is always just a little bit off in the future, data centres that churn through horrendous amounts of water are always a thing of the recent past.