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AI uses water?
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Well obviously the little people who live in the computer get thirsty because it's so hot in there
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Oompa-Loompas need their pools
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Cooling uses freshwater and often drinking water
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That's crazy, they should use heat pumps and maybe underground refrigerant loops instead.
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But that costs money
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All data centers use lots of water for cooling.
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The water is mostly returned to the watershed, from what I understand. Except the bits that evaporate
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They primarily use evaporative cooling. Way less energy use, but no, it doesn't get returned.
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Ah fuck
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Also the internet uses massive amounts of water and energy
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I'm not clear on the details but I think some servers just hook up open loop to mains water for cooling.
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Most of those are closed loop though, for example where I work you need ~1 glass of water per server and you're basically good for the next 10 years
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chip manufacturing uses water
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