[AlienRobot]

I saw a story posted on reddit that U.S. engineers went to China and said the U.S. would lose the A.I. game because THE ENERGY GRID was much worse than China's.

That's just pure insanity to me.

It's not even Internet speed or hardware. It's literally not having enough electricity. What is going on with the world...

[ipython]

Not to mention water for cooling. Large data centers can use 1 million+ gallons per day.

[xnx]

1 million gallons is approximately 0.5 seconds of flow of the Columbia river.

[wiredpancake]

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]

That's true for closed loop systems, but some data enters use evaporative cooling because it is more energy efficient.