Comment on AI boom means regulator cannot predict future water shortages in England
Denjin@lemmings.world 10 hours agoThey can’t even treat water with literal shit in it before dumping it back into rivers and the sea. Why would they be able to do any better with data centres.
Zip2@feddit.uk 10 hours ago
Well it doesn’t have literal shit in it for starters.
If you have a water cooled pc, one end of it isn’t connected to the mains and the other end to the drain. It’s a loop. I can’t see why the same can’t be made true of data centres.
Denjin@lemmings.world 9 hours ago
Money is why, you expect amazon to pay extra money to setup a closed loop system when they could offset the costs to the water company?
Zip2@feddit.uk 9 hours ago
I don’t expect them too, I expect them to be made too.
Denjin@lemmings.world 8 hours ago
I see you’re labouring under the illusion that the UK government aren’t desperate for AI cash