[rant, people]

@mage_of_dragons and it bothers me how hordes of people will just take that at face value and go full berserk rage without ever verifying anything

@moof get them both and mix them and ask which gender it would be

@whitequark I suppose it's also good to mention that this hasn't changed much with AI AFAIK, especially considering the new buildings all use air-conditioning/heatpumps.

but.. while water evap uses like 1% of the energy a datacenter uses, airconditioning uses at best 16% and usually more like […]

@whitequark the cooling towers are made to recycle the water over and over and have the least amount of 'drift' and such, trying to simply get rid of the heat without losing too much water. See below for a picture of an average cooling tower, if you're […]

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@whitequark the evap cooling does use a significant amount of water, I wasn't sure if I could give the number but based on the public report the one I work at uses about 60-80 million liters a month (see picture below).

AFAIK, most of this water comes from […]

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@whitequark it's a bit tough to navigate maybe, bit heavy on the positivism, but, there are reports for every datacenter mentioned there. myself I primarily work at this one: https://datacenters.google/locations/eemshaven-netherlands-var/

@whitequark I guess this is the most common link I give to people: https://datacenters.google

it has a bit of everything, if you dig deep enough you'll also find actual figures for the amount of water they use, and replenish, the power usage efficiency, the various designs they use, etc.

If […]

@whitequark yea. I work at a google hyperscale dc. if you want to know more about any details, I'm happy to explain as long as it doesn't pertain NDA'd info. I am a datacenter technician, not a designer or anyone that has any control over these though, in a sense I'm but a cashier at a large […]

@whitequark (like, if you use evap cooling in the desert at the cost of local farms and drinking water you're an idiot that deserves the outrage, but e.g the one here nearby me in the Netherlands has plenty waste/rainwater to work with, but good luck getting the general public to have a take […]

@whitequark it's the same as in power plants, same tech, you use a closed loop on the dc floor to capture heat from the hot aisles with radiators, then outdoors you use evaporative cooling towers to get rid of that heat, which costs much less power than air-conditioning.

due to the water usage […]

and honestly, not to bust people's hustle, but even websites with 'proper' articles are a kind of a mixed bag..

It seems rare for someone who's good enough to actually work in the industry, to settle for the mediocre salary of being part of an ad-laden website with advice, except maybe as a […]

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@maruno honestly have been unable to work entirely for almost two months now.. that worries me, i don't want to lose my job :/

but i just physically can barely even walk stairs right now, going to the grocery store or even playing some heavy games makes me sick. constantly have fever and […]

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ugh I feel like I hardly slept at all, everything hurts, my lungs and insides hate me, I have a thick white noise tinnitus, and I also can't sleep anymore. at least my heartrate is only 90-100bpm right now?

I know it's monday but can I get a break already :woozy_sob:

@dragonarchitect @bunch_of_dergs too late nyehehehehehe *skitters off with a trail of rainbow stardust :_gaysparkle: *

@sterophonick for now I mostly see eepy