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ipython
88 days ago
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Anthropic raises $13B Series F
Not to mention water for cooling. Large data centers can use 1 million+ gallons per day.
xnx
88 days ago
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1 million gallons is approximately 0.5 seconds of flow of the Columbia river.
wiredpancake
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It means nothing when most water is recycled anyways. It's not like the GPUs actually drink the stuff, the water just connects to heatsinks and is cycled around.
xnx
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That's true for closed loop systems, but some data enters use evaporative cooling because it is more energy efficient.
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