VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 21 hours agoData center "mistakenly" used 30 million gallons of waterdiscuss.onlineimagemessage-square125fedilinkarrow-up11.05Karrow-down18
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minus-squareanomnom@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·11 hours agoMaybe, thermodynamics are a jerk, and it may be impossible to get enough cooling in some environments. It could also use more power to compress refrigerants to cool it other ways. Then we’re trading carbon in the atmosphere for water waste. Sure we could use solar, hydro, or nuclear, but we could also just stop the fucking slop and waste less of everything. But without political revolt none of that will happen.
minus-squareWorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 hours agoOr we can start running 9B models on a solar powered PI. Why tf we need data centers? AI won’t get much better than this with it’s current architecture.
Maybe, thermodynamics are a jerk, and it may be impossible to get enough cooling in some environments.
It could also use more power to compress refrigerants to cool it other ways. Then we’re trading carbon in the atmosphere for water waste.
Sure we could use solar, hydro, or nuclear, but we could also just stop the fucking slop and waste less of everything.
But without political revolt none of that will happen.
Or we can start running 9B models on a solar powered PI. Why tf we need data centers? AI won’t get much better than this with it’s current architecture.