Is underwater cooling of data centres the future?There's complaints about AI costing lots of water. Why can't huge centres just be built underwater? Surely there could be side benefits, like being able to create freshwater from the heat, or just generally raising the surrounding temperatures of the sea to help more life blossom.Will we see nations with lots of shallow water nearby, like in picrel, create huge underwater data centres to power the next industrial revolution? There's also advances in underwater farming which are interesting.Apparently works' already taking place:https://news.samsungcnt.com/en/features/engineering-construction/2024-08-data-center-cooling-is-the-future-underwater/
Sounds 'cool'. However... sea water is a lot nastier than fresh water. If you evaporate it you're left with salty bullshit. Even if you don't, it will create mineral deposits and even biological growths on surfaces over time. It is also corrosive so many materials are ruled out. Combined with the expense of underwater logistics, I am skeptical of the idea. It's worth following if interests you, but I would take hype with a grain of salt.
>>103230061>looking for an admin with a scuba license
>>103230229uh, anon, heat exchangers exist so you don’t actually need to directly contact sea water with whatever you’re trying to cool
>>103230256OK, but it still contacts your heat exchange. Anything underwater is subject to these problems. It's expensive.
>endonyms>state alphabetPeak retardation
>>103230348>not understanding anything outside your immediate 1km radiussad.
why don't they just...make it so it doesn't produce heat? huh??
>>103230061>There's complaints about AI costing lots of water.wat>heat, coolingMicrosoft used to think so a few years ago. Don't know where they're at now.>raising the surrounding temperatures of the sea to help more life blossom.absolutely not, see pic rel
>>103230061training a model usually uses less water than your typical 747 making one flight
>>103231118We're not on about training, but the billions of gallons used to cool data centres which are providing expensive tools to billions of people.Read somewhere earlier that by 2030 water needed for cooling AI data centres will match New Zealand's water consumption.
>AI costing lots of water.rain world is a documentary
>>103230277>waa waa my imaginary value being corroded away by naturegrow up and use your underpaid shitskin army that you imported to replace us to repair it, technigger
>>103231301So fucking nothing? How can water even be consumed? The only way we lose water is by its vapor escaping earth's atmosphere, which is insignificant amount. The rest of water is 100% free.
>>103232900im glad that russian shill bots don't even try to hide it anymore here
I love global warming
>>103232945I hope russians aren't hiding in your walls, don't forget to tear them down and check to be sure, might want to use some mustard gas to smoke them out even.
>>103232900Very based, but it's still going to be expensive. Too expensive.
>>103230061Because that's retarded. You could just build the thing seaside and pump the seawater through pipes if you absolutely had to use seawater. But you could also just recycle fresh water after passing it through a radiator because brine is corrosive.You can also just build your shit in cold climates. Iceland has a lot of crypto miners who get electricity from geothermal sources.
