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Critics Furious Microsoft Is Training AI by Sucking Up Water During Drought (futurism.com)
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[โ€“] lud@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cooling with evaporative cooling does make some sense since it works. It's absolutely not ideal though.

It should totally be a closed water (or other fluid) loop and where possible build datacenters in cooler climates.

[โ€“] vidarh@lemmy.stad.social 1 points 1 year ago

Latency limits datacenter placement a lot, but for batch jobs like AI training it's certainly an option.