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I think AI training presents quite a nice opportunity for states like Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas (plenty of available land for solar power plants, many
by credit_guy 3y ago
I think AI training presents quite a nice opportunity for states like Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas (plenty of available land for solar power plants, many sunny days, few rainy ones, nights not that long in the winter). Mexico and Australia are also very well positioned.
- Buttons840 3y agoData centers use a lot of water though, don't they?
- credit_guy 3y agoA hyperscale (cloud) datacenter uses about 2000 m3 of water per day [1]. That sounds like a lot, without any frame of reference. But if we compare with the average golf course in the South-West, that uses 459 acre-feet of water per year ([2], Table 2) which comes to 1550 m3 of water per day. There are more than 200 golf courses in the South West. You can draw your own conclusions. [1] https://dgtlinfra.com/data-center-water-usage/ https://dgtlinfra.com/data-center-water-usage/ [2]https://usgatero.msu.edu/v11/216335.pdf https://usgatero.msu.edu/v11/216335.pdf