Comment on How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water?
MantisToboggon@lazysoci.al 2 days ago
They use evaporative cooling for a chiller plant most likely.
Comment on How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water?
MantisToboggon@lazysoci.al 2 days ago
They use evaporative cooling for a chiller plant most likely.
planish@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Why would they design around evaporative cooling when water consumption is a problem?
kassiopaea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Because evaporative cooling is much cheaper and easier to accomplish at scale, and megacorps don’t care about long-term resource constraints until it begins to affect their wallets.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 day ago
also places in red states allow for free or cheap polluting, and waste.
Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Because it’s cheap and easy.
fullsquare@awful.systems 2 days ago
because it’s cheap, easy, compact, well understood, and makes numbers look good. number in question is ratio of energy used by entire facility to energy used by silicon only (i forgor how it’s called). alternative is dissipating heat from radiators, but this makes this number like 3. evaporative cooling makes this number closer to 1.2
Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 days ago
sounds like we need to charge them more for water
Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Instead, WE are paying more for water and power to subsidize them.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Because they are assholes who hate the environment. The same reason they are using fossil fuels to power their slop centers instead of renewables.
MantisToboggon@lazysoci.al 2 days ago
most effective form of heat transfer
fullsquare@awful.systems 2 days ago
it wasn’t a problem before they started doing this
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Because line must go up