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Liquid Cooling Exhibits

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ForOldHack ◴[] No.45138734[source]
These are some very innovative ideas and they totally and completely side step the need of AI for fresh water, leakages and alternative coolants.
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sniffers ◴[] No.45138922[source]
They definitely don't. The water consumption of AI is not happening in the cooling blocks in the racks, it's happening outside in cooling towers. The heat a data center produces must be removed from the data center, and that is typically done via evaporation. The hot water interfaces with evaporative cooling towers and moves back inside to cool the chips again.

It would be neat if we could harvest that heat and use it for some purpose, but today we largely use it to make steam.

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1. matt-p ◴[] No.45143825[source]
It can be done without water it's just marginally more energy intensive. Traditional dry coolers are perfect for these temps.