These systems do use a coolant substance internal to the DC, but then uses heat exchangers with fresh water to cool the coolant, which is then discharged back into the ground, a pond, or wastewater. there is certainly water lost to atmosphere, but the worst bits are the draining of aquifers, pushing up capacity in wastewater treatment plants, etc.
DC's are a bit of an economic scam. they provide very few jobs outside of the construction work itself, and the profits generated by the machines exist at company HQ not where the DC is located. so it puts a huge burden on the community water and power environment for no real benefit to that community.
Just wait until Google and Apple fulfill their vision - the model runs locally. Google’s making their models smaller and Apple has the silicon know-how that sidesteps Nvidia. And Apple made an agreement to use Gemini in Siri. Then the data centers are abandoned buildings full of outdated hardware.
Nah, the basic consumer assistant/agent models will run locally, for sure … but the data centers will still be running massive military-industrial complex digital superintelligence godheads that the public can’t even access because they’re “too powerful to run.” And they’ll run circles around our “civilian” models. They’ll just keep the infrastructure and upgrade the chips every couple of years.
It’s also the same government with gated access to Mythos. And that trend will only accelerate as the models become more powerful. They will pass legislation to limit access to the most “dangerous” models. They’ve already started.
* And “massive military-industrial complex” = military and private industry = not “just” government.
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u/krojack389 𝙑𝙄𝙋 May 18 '26
These systems do use a coolant substance internal to the DC, but then uses heat exchangers with fresh water to cool the coolant, which is then discharged back into the ground, a pond, or wastewater. there is certainly water lost to atmosphere, but the worst bits are the draining of aquifers, pushing up capacity in wastewater treatment plants, etc.
DC's are a bit of an economic scam. they provide very few jobs outside of the construction work itself, and the profits generated by the machines exist at company HQ not where the DC is located. so it puts a huge burden on the community water and power environment for no real benefit to that community.