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AI is not the whole cloud, it’s a fraction of the cloud.
The MIT Press article is from 2022, citing 2019 data. Datacenter tech and heat reuse extremely intensified the last years, so this data is clearly out of date.
Go explain to these people why “bigger DCs are actually better”:
Tell me where there is any proof this is meta fault ? Because they are near the datacenter ? Do you have any idea of the amount of water a datacenter consume ?
AI is not the whole cloud, it’s a fraction of the cloud
And yet it uses so much more energy per capita. This is not like a secret, dude.
Do you have any idea of the amount of water a datacenter consume ?
No. Nobody has exact figures because there is a mountain of intentional obfuscation hiding it. We know that it is a tremendous amount of water because we can estimate and we can see the data of towns literally going into extreme droughts right next to data centers, but is is suspiciously difficult to get actual numbers. This should tell you a lot.
So this is Jenkins except it guzzles water and ruins the lives of people near data centers?
Not every datacenter is like elon datacenters.
Sure, some of them are much bigger and more environmentally destructive.
Not at all. Bigger datacenter usually use lower carbon energy source, try to lower energy spent for cooling and try to recycle the heat.
New datacenter reuse more and more the heat they generate:
https://blog.equinix.com/blog/2024/06/05/what-is-data-center-heat-export-and-how-does-it-work/
Real water polluter are PFAS producer, not datacenters.
Go explain to these people why “bigger DCs are actually better”: https://youtu.be/DGjj7wDYaiI
Here’s the MIT Press detailing the ridiculous carbon and water impacts of data centers: https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggering-ecological-impacts-of-computation-and-the-cloud/
“AI” is not worth this.
AI is not the whole cloud, it’s a fraction of the cloud.
The MIT Press article is from 2022, citing 2019 data. Datacenter tech and heat reuse extremely intensified the last years, so this data is clearly out of date.
Tell me where there is any proof this is meta fault ? Because they are near the datacenter ? Do you have any idea of the amount of water a datacenter consume ?
And yet it uses so much more energy per capita. This is not like a secret, dude.
No. Nobody has exact figures because there is a mountain of intentional obfuscation hiding it. We know that it is a tremendous amount of water because we can estimate and we can see the data of towns literally going into extreme droughts right next to data centers, but is is suspiciously difficult to get actual numbers. This should tell you a lot.
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/data-center-water-usage-remains-hidden/
Did… did you not actually watch the video? The video very clearly answers this. Like, multiple times.