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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.
by AlienRobot 1y ago
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 1y agoNot to mention water for cooling. Large data centers can use 1 million+ gallons per day.
- xnx 1y ago1 million gallons is approximately 0.5 seconds of flow of the Columbia river.
- wiredpancake 1y agoIt 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 1y agoThat's true for closed loop systems, but some data enters use evaporative cooling because it is more energy efficient.