Comment by matt-p
9 months ago
Genuinely most "AI" DCs are spending less than 9KW on cooling for every 100KW of servers. If you were that bothered about getting that to zero, you could literally sink them into the ocean, build a heat network so the town can take the heat for free or use any of a dozen more established and practical ways to do that.
Please don’t suggest heating the ocean! Someone might just go to try to do that. The ocean is already warming too much!
It's a bit demoralizing how many suggestions in this thread would have significant environmental effects beyond what large scale AI training already has.
It's far far faaar more demoralizing people not realizing orders of magnitude...
Something like 2/3rds of sunshine is already being absorbed by oceans. How much solar power do humans harvest? A billionth?
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It's a bit demoralizing people talk about AI training as if it were even 1/100th the environmental impact of the personal automobile or frequent airplane trips
It's already being done all over the place. It's not particularly damaging compared to the alternatives.