Not just water, but also resources: electricity, RAM and Flash memory, other things being over-consumed by the AI development explosion. This war doesn’t have geographic or national boundaries, its the (heavily funded) AI companies vs everyone else.
Not just water, but also resources: electricity, RAM and Flash memory, other things being over-consumed by the AI development explosion. This war doesn’t have geographic or national boundaries, its the (heavily funded) AI companies vs everyone else.
water is cheap and electricity usually (ignoring hydro solar and wind) consumes about as much as the datacenter does directly to produce.
it almost looks like desalination might be more energy efficient than not using the water for datacenter cooling even