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Water in data center is cyclic. AI uses a miniscule amount of water compared to most things in our economy
I’m not an expert on data center cooling, but I don’t think closed loop cooling is the norm. At least evaporative cooling is very much a thing. Here’s Lenovo bragging about doing closed loop last year and talking about the industry using evaporative and pressuring water systems https://news.lenovo.com/data-centers-worlds-ai-generators-water-usage/
MFW I have no idea what the implications of evaporative cooling are
I'm aware, it's miniscule including that. Without it it would be near zero