Comment on AI datacenters may gulp NYC's daily water supply at peak
tal@lemmy.today 1 week ago
New York City is a port city. It has an infinite supply of salt water, which you can use for evaporative cooling, albeit with some extra complications.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
They could also use treated waste water for cooling the data centers instead of dumping it in the ocean.
tal@lemmy.today 1 week ago
Yeah, there’s some nuclear power plant here in the US that uses sewage for cooling. It’s out in the middle of the desert, Arizona or New Mexico or something, somewhere where it’d be a pain to bring in a bunch more water.
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