| ▲ | ipython 2 days ago |
| Not to mention water for cooling. Large data centers can use 1 million+ gallons per day. |
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| ▲ | xnx 2 days ago | parent [-] |
| 1 million gallons is approximately 0.5 seconds of flow of the Columbia river. |
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| ▲ | wiredpancake 2 days ago | parent [-] | | It means nothing when most water is recycled anyways. It's not like the GPUs actually drink the stuff, the water just connects to heatsinks and is cycled around. | | |
| ▲ | xnx 2 days ago | parent [-] | | That's true for closed loop systems, but some data enters use evaporative cooling because it is more energy efficient. |
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