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Data center guzzled 30 million gallons of water and nobody noticed for months

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1 Jul
NVIDIA's warm-water fix for AI's thirsty data centers

<p>NVIDIA has proposed a liquid-cooling design for AI data centers that it says can eliminate virtually all on-site water consumption for chip cooling, replacing traditional

REPORT · WHO · Dev.toOPEN STORY
6 May
"Water wars."

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1t58p3x/water_wars/"> <img alt="&quot;Water wars.&quot;"

OPINION · WHAT · OpenAIOPEN STORY
1 May
AI Uses Less Water Than the Public Thinks

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REPORT · WHAT · Hacker News Best (RSS)OPEN STORY
6 Jul
AI's Water Bill: The Data Center Backlash Is Here

<p>In February, city officials in Cheyenne, Wyoming discovered something in their reclaimed water system that shouldn't have been there: <em>Cupriavidus gilardii</em>, a rare

REPORT · WHERE · Dev.toOPEN STORY
12 May
Data center used 30 million gallons of water without initially paying

&#32; submitted by &#32; <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/TryWhistlin"> /u/TryWhistlin </a> <br /> <span><a

OPINION · WHAT · ArtificialInteligenceOPEN STORY
15 May
Genuine question. Is the whole "AI guzzles gallons of water" thing totally true, or do people get it wrong? Does AI consume a lot of water for every single prompt, or is the majority of water consumed during data farming? Don't non-AI data centers use up a lot of water on cooling too?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Please someone set me straight and dispel whether there are myths surrounding this often-repeated internet factoid</p> <p>And I genuinely don't

OPINION · WHAT · singularityOPEN STORY
29 Mar
Is the use of water by AI a real issue?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>specifically, I want to find out how much water data centres are using as a comparable figure such as gallons per minute. (and also do they use

OPINION · HOW · ArtificialInteligenceOPEN STORY
10 Apr
Thought on data center

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>In my opinion, the biggest bottleneck for AI and its future capabilities is not data, models, or funding it is data centers. More specifically,

OPINION · WHAT · OpenAIOPEN STORY
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