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Climate Change


kalifire

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I saw one American Republican suggest LA's problems means it shouldn't be hosting the next Olympics and that they instead should be moved to Dallas or Miami.

 

That's Miami as in a city that's at risk of hurricanes all the way from June to November... not sure how exactly that's an improvement.

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4 hours ago, GhostOfMaurice said:

 

And I suppose when AI takes over it won't have much need for clean air and water...

You say that, AI requires a lot of water to cool computer data centres - significantly more than regular Internet stuff did.

 

This was even discussed earlier this week as the UK government want to build an AI data centre just south of Oxford despite the fact Southern England and Oxfordshire in particular is seen as a water scarce region.

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11 minutes ago, charlierc said:

You say that, AI requires a lot of water to cool computer data centres - significantly more than regular Internet stuff did.

 

This was even discussed earlier this week as the UK government want to build an AI data centre just south of Oxford despite the fact Southern England and Oxfordshire in particular is seen as a water scarce region.

can use sea water? Stick the data centres in the sea? 

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3 hours ago, charlierc said:

You say that, AI requires a lot of water to cool computer data centres - significantly more than regular Internet stuff did.

 

This was even discussed earlier this week as the UK government want to build an AI data centre just south of Oxford despite the fact Southern England and Oxfordshire in particular is seen as a water scarce region.

 

It wouldn't have to be drinking water though, would it? 

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1 hour ago, GhostOfMaurice said:

 

It wouldn't have to be drinking water though, would it? 

From an article ruminating on this: "Not just any type of water can be used in data centers. They need clean, fresh water to avoid corrosion or bacteria growth that can come with seawater."

 

... so, yes, it would appear drinking water is being repurposed for this.

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...and apparently full of PFAS.

 

Anyway...everyone getting all excited about this AI thing...not at all optimistic myself, especially if it's going to be in the hands of the nutty silicon valley tech bro CEOs. I mean are we all happier healthier little people with the internet and social media?...seems to me we're just totally dependent on it and everyone is getting sick in the head. But apparently it's progress, can't be stopped, so hey ho.

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19 hours ago, charlierc said:

From an article ruminating on this: "Not just any type of water can be used in data centers. They need clean, fresh water to avoid corrosion or bacteria growth that can come with seawater."

 

... so, yes, it would appear drinking water is being repurposed for this.

 

You learn something new every day. I assumed it was just for cooling purposes. They can have the water, just don't take any of our cider!

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If AI really going to be used to try to solve the climate crisis surely it will just shut itself down to save the planet and hopefully take down all of the fossil fuel power plants before it does so. 
You can only live in hope 

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On 1/20/2025 at 7:54 PM, tarw said:

They’ve probably written lots of code that prevents that. And hopefully prevented it from re-writing that bit or bypass it. 

They can't even write the code to get it to correctly count the number of "e"s in strawberry.

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On 1/20/2025 at 7:54 PM, tarw said:

They’ve probably written lots of code that prevents that. And hopefully prevented it from re-writing that bit or bypass it. 

well...written in Silicon valley so maybe checks political affiliations, immigration status, religion, and criminal record before deciding on that kill decision.

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