Anonymous #3 2w

like everyone is so overcome with the boom right now, that no one has stopped to question how we can do this cheaper and more efficiently. they just want a piece of the pie.

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Anonymous #3 2w

I’m not trying to be an ai glazer at all but they’ve definitely studied it, they’re definitely working in the issue. Not because they care about us or the environment but because more efficient cooling is more profitable. But heat management is a very practical problem that requires practical solutions, water is a lot more efficient than air cooling so they use water. They’ve certainly asked the question and this is their answer. But yes 100% agree that regulation and oversight are the answers.

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Anonymous #2 2w

I just don't believe they've looked into it enough or are thinking of other possible ideas like AI can find a cancer cure, but this is the absolutely only best solution? for me, that is super hard to believe. are things coded efficiently so it doesn't produce as much heat? can we take that heat's energy and create a renewable energy resource from it to power these data centers? are there other materials that we think wouldn't work, but would actually work better? there's so many levels to this

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Anonymous #2 2w

and I just don't necessarily think these companies are actually digging this deeply into it because that would cost more money and more years, so it's cheaper for them to just not do any of that and get in the game right now

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Anonymous #3 2w

I mean you have a point about waste, they’re pushing people to use ai at every turn and where it’s absolutely not needed (every single google search, every single chatbot on a retail page…etc) but that’s because they want to make people dependent on it. As far as cooling goes my point is just that there is a huge profit incentive for these people to cool things more efficiently so they’re certainly working on that with some of the best minds they can hire

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Anonymous #3 2w

can we filter the water used to cool so it's renewable? right now the answer is no, but that doesn't mean there advancements that can happen so the answer is yes. sooo many things that just take time and more money

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Anonymous #2 2w

yea but then they're firing people too so it's just like are they????? telling this to the public would be good press for them and they aren't so

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Anonymous #2 2w

And I think the issue is that even for regenerative heat capture you still need water to carry the thermal energy through the pipes to where it needs to go. I could be wrong on that and definitely don’t know enough about it tho so maybe they could be doing more there

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