Would it be possible to use warm or hot water in any useful way, instead of just releasing it in the sea?
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You could probably hook it up to a turbine like a sterling engine, and convert heat into useful energy that could then be fed back into the data center.
Love China, love ingenuity, but I'm gonna laugh my ass off when the oceans boil because of data centers
when you fail physics in school and you don't understand that data centers on land take more energy to cool 🤦
The differences in energy usage are not that big. And extra quantities of servers easily offsets the efficiency gains.
The servers would be built anyways as long as there's demand for computing. Meanwhile, both energy usage and water requirements are important factors. The municipal water supply competing with data centre usage is already a big problem in many states in the US.
data centers on land take more energy to cool
Oh undoubtedly but with the current ai data center hype trend corpos won't stop until the oceans boil
nah, they'll stop when the bubble pops which is likely to happen within a year at this point
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