@floofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year agoA.I. tools fueled a 34% spike in Microsoft’s water consumption, and one city with its data centers is concerned about the effect on residential supplyfortune.comexternal-linkmessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up1435arrow-down117cross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
arrow-up1418arrow-down1external-linkA.I. tools fueled a 34% spike in Microsoft’s water consumption, and one city with its data centers is concerned about the effect on residential supplyfortune.com@floofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year agomessage-square54fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
minus-squareZimalinkfedilink3•1 year agoyou might be right but some numbers might back up your claim. I doubt that servers could heat water as much as a nuclear reactor. datacenter coolers certainly don’t have to pressurize the water to prevent it from boiling, it doesn’t get that hot.
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you might be right but some numbers might back up your claim. I doubt that servers could heat water as much as a nuclear reactor. datacenter coolers certainly don’t have to pressurize the water to prevent it from boiling, it doesn’t get that hot.