haxor@derp.fooMB to Hacker News@derp.fooEnglish · 3 years agoCritics Furious Microsoft Is Training AI by Sucking Up Water During Droughtfuturism.comexternal-linkmessage-square5linkfedilinkarrow-up184file-text
arrow-up184external-linkCritics Furious Microsoft Is Training AI by Sucking Up Water During Droughtfuturism.comhaxor@derp.fooMB to Hacker News@derp.fooEnglish · 3 years agomessage-square5linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareVeltoss@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·3 years agoYeah it’s a “this is cheaper and we’re greedy” problem but people will add this to their AI fearmongering and hating circlejerks. Apparently they’re looking into nuclear reactors for this which doesn’t waste as much water from what I understand.
minus-squareCADmonkey@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 years agoCould supply power for better A/C? I admit that doesn’t make sense, but then neither does it make sense to cool a data center with evaporative water cooling as if it were a hit-and-miss engine from the 1910’s, so I dunno.
minus-squareV H@lemmy.stad.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 years agoLatency limits datacenter placement a lot, but for batch jobs like AI training it’s certainly an option.
Yeah it’s a “this is cheaper and we’re greedy” problem but people will add this to their AI fearmongering and hating circlejerks.
Apparently they’re looking into nuclear reactors for this which doesn’t waste as much water from what I understand.
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Could supply power for better A/C?
I admit that doesn’t make sense, but then neither does it make sense to cool a data center with evaporative water cooling as if it were a hit-and-miss engine from the 1910’s, so I dunno.
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Latency limits datacenter placement a lot, but for batch jobs like AI training it’s certainly an option.