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‘We didn’t vote for ChatGPT’: Swedish PM under fire for using AI in role
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I wonder if sea water could be used instead of fresh water.
It's all about cost. They don't have to use evaporation to cool. Sea water would likely increase costs, so no. They'd use the cheapest option until it's no longer available. Either due to depletion or due to regulation.
I’m fairly certain the Green Mountain facility in Norway uses frigid fjord water to cool their center. So, it can be done. I’m not sure where the facility in Texas is located though. I’m guessing in a water-poor area nowhere near the coast.
It's located in Texas.
Ok? and Texas is 268,596 square miles (~ 432,263 square km) with 367 miles (~591 km) of coastline. Although I’ll give you that that’s tropical gulf waters not frigid fjords to pull from. I was just saying I don’t know the exact location in Texas of the facility everyone is buzzing about water shortages. But salt water can be used instead of freshwater because other places do it.
It is possible and is used in some areas, but it is more expensive and more technically challenging. As others have pointed out, capitalism will use the cheapest resources until they run out.
It could, but then they would have to spend money on desalination.
Depends on how you are doing the cooling. Sea water could cool down the internal cooling of the plant. Just like an two-uint air conditioner use some internal fluid stuff to transfer heat from the inside unit to the outside unit (internal cooling) and then use air to cool down the internal fluid. For the data centers, you just change out the air cooling with sea water cooling.