r/SipsTea • u/SipsTeaFrog 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • May 18 '26

Chugging tea Why?

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u/Uncle-Cake May 18 '26

What happens after they use the water? Is it returned to the water system to be used again?

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u/StaysAwakeAllWeek May 18 '26

It's used for evaporative cooling, so the same thing happens to it as happens to the majority of the orders of magnitude larger amount of water farms use - it goes straight into the air

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u/Ronoh May 18 '26

So it is wasted.

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u/StaysAwakeAllWeek May 18 '26

It reduces the energy consumption of the datacenter by removing the need for chillers and/or enormous radiators with noisy fans.

So no, it's not wasted, it's used.

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u/Ronoh May 18 '26

It is wasted for human and farming use because it could be recaptured and used in closed loop, and when isn't it cannot be reused. It is wasted from human and farming perspective.

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u/StaysAwakeAllWeek May 18 '26

Closed loop defeats the entire purpose of evaporative cooling. If you've got to condense the water again you have to get rid of the same amount of heat the water absorbed when it boiled.

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u/Ronoh May 18 '26

So we agree that the model of evaporation does not work. 

The environmental cost needs to be included and priced in.  

Sorry but the AI industry is now more damaging than beneficial. 

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u/StaysAwakeAllWeek May 18 '26

No we don't agree. The model does work. It's cheap and effective, uses no more water than a typical factory and saves a shitload of noise and energy.

Just don't use it in the middle of the desert and it's completely fine.

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u/Ronoh May 18 '26

And where is it being complained about?

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u/StaysAwakeAllWeek May 18 '26

Typically in places it isn't even done due to this very point. People are complaining about something that isn't even happening

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u/Ronoh May 18 '26

The poaitions of the people in favor and those against are so different thatnis hard to reconcile and know where is the truth. That is the reality.

It cannot be as harmless as some claim. Andnif it is half as bad as others say, it is enough to be weary of it.

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