Who "gobbles" water? What a weird title by the site.
> Typical data centers guzzle around 500,000 gallons of water each day, but these forthcoming AI-centric complexes will likely be even thirstier.
Then they go on to say guzzling. Really personifying the monster. First, it's bigger than Manhattan... then it's gobbling and guzzling.
I wonder if the author or any people reviewing the piece 'fed' it into a 'starving' LLM?
ksec · 10m ago
If the water is only used for cooling then it should be a closed loop system and doesn't "used up" any water?
Unless Data Center uses water in a way we dont know?
asib · 7m ago
Hmm bit of googling indicates one example: at least some data centers use cooling towers which dissipate heat via evaporation, i.e. loss of some water from the system.
I suppose not all water cooling systems (especially of this scale) work exactly like e.g. a water-cooled PC.
> Typical data centers guzzle around 500,000 gallons of water each day, but these forthcoming AI-centric complexes will likely be even thirstier.
Then they go on to say guzzling. Really personifying the monster. First, it's bigger than Manhattan... then it's gobbling and guzzling.
I wonder if the author or any people reviewing the piece 'fed' it into a 'starving' LLM?
Unless Data Center uses water in a way we dont know?
I suppose not all water cooling systems (especially of this scale) work exactly like e.g. a water-cooled PC.