Comment on What's the deal with AI datacenters using water for cooling?

• disregardable@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  still a proper closed loop cooling system isn’t exactly wasting water is it?

  If you take good water from underground, it evaporates, and you’re in a drought-prone area, your area effectively just lost the water. Even if you’re not in a drought-prone area, you’re never going to have easy access to that clean, underground water again.

  https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.03271

  I found this, and it has a cool overview of water towers and such.

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    This is exactly why I asked, hoping for more information like this.

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