Anonymous #1 3w

To cool down the servers after you use them. It takes a lot of energy and power for them to search the entire internet and provide a response.

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Anonymous #2 3w

Ok but hows that take water? This shit should be a closed loop, right?

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Anonymous #1 3w

Even if they are a closed loop when the device itself get too hot it can short circuit

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Anonymous #1 3w

Its honestly super complicated but TLDR; To safely cool the systems without ruining hundreds of thousands of dollars of tech they need non salt, non replenish-able water (all water is technically non replenish-able but thats a whole diff convo), ai in 2025 used the same amount of non replenish-able water as the entire bottled water industry and created the same amount of global warming adjacent emissions as all of NYC, gen AI is killing the planet at exponential rates

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Anonymous #3 3w

why cant we reuse the water after it cools down the systems? does it just evaporate and never come down again? (ik i can look this up but u seem knowledgable and ur human and im clueless)

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Anonymous #4 3w

Contamination mostly, the heat of the systems also creates evaporation loss (which is a reason why they cant closed loop with the already contaminated water). To make the water safe for use/consumption theyd need extremely high energy purification plants that are expensive to make/run so they dont do it. The contaminated water, if released harms ecosystems, but the companys dont wanna fork the major bill to even mildly fix the water so we end up with a bunch of chem filled slop that we cant use

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Anonymous #3 3w

Thats my understanding of it at least, I know much less about the details of back end water purification as I do abt the outputs and system requirements

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Anonymous #3 3w

Also to note the purification plants would drop a fuck ton of green house gases and be just as if not more harmful than them releasing all this contaminated water, so there isnt really a net positive ecologically anyways

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