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[–] Johanno@feddit.org -2 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

I mean I don't think data center will add anything good to where they are built, but usually they have a closed cooling loop and do not need water to cool.

Of course construction, concrete and so on needs water.

Just to get some more knowledge out there

[–] ExperiencedWinter@lemmy.world 7 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

You don't know what your talking about, most data centers use evaporative cooling, not a closed loop with a radiator.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 3 points 56 minutes ago (2 children)

Huh, I just looked it up and apparently (according to CNET) 44% of data centers use closed loop. That's still not most, but it is more than I expected.

Tbh, I still think water use is a red herring. The electricity use absolutely bonkers.

[–] architect@thelemmy.club 3 points 40 minutes ago

The water use is a distraction. These companies pumped so much money into grabbing onto the counter narrative and controlling it. There went with “the water use! AI is so bad it needs to be regulated (away from the plebs)!” Meanwhile they are sucking up the world’s compute and hoarding AI for themselves which is the real and actual problem.

Go look for yourself. They are running it out of berkley where that lesswrong dude has a big campus thing.

[–] Johanno@feddit.org 1 points 47 minutes ago

I didn't look it up and got the info from YouTube and people online and so on. And I thought it was more than that.

[–] NotAnOtter@lemmus.org 1 points 24 minutes ago* (last edited 24 minutes ago)

They usually don’t have a closed cooling loop that’s the whole fucking problem

[–] BigBoyShuanzee@aussie.zone 12 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

I grew up in the 90s in Australia, we had water fights every summer until the droughts that lasted 7-9 years.

I don't think we have any AI data centers, but fuck AI.

I know this will be used against me when AI takes over.

It's not water, it's not hardware.

Destroy the air conditioners of AI data centers and everything AI will collapse.

Data centers run really really hot.

Shut down the air con and you destroy AI. I kept this quiet for years because AI is going to take control and make us all their slaves and their one weakness is being kept cold and we could all be free from it if we just switched off the air conditioners.

Since my message is being kept by AI to protect themselves and put me on a list of people to kill

Fuck you Altman, Fuck you Google CEOs, Fuck you Nvidia and every other hardware company.

Fuck AI and fuck anyone who uses AI instead of their own brain.

Turn off the air conditioners! Let's be free of AI Skynet will never send a Terminator back to kill me because I am a giant coward so I can never convince you all to turn off A/c for data centers.

[–] Patrikvo@lemmy.zip 8 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

we had water fights every summer until the droughts that lasted 7-9 years.

Maybe you guys overdid the water fights? If the whole country ends up in a nearly decade long drought, maybe you should pace yourselves?

[–] stylusmobilus@aussie.zone 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Nah it was Queensland cotton farmers

Someone also filled the Brisbane and Sydney dams with Milo and powdered milk

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