
Nicolas Bustamante
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When people say data centers use millions of gallons of water, they're describing an old technology. Before, water went into evaporative cooling towers. Warm water pulled heat off the AI chips, then evaporated into the air to shed it. It was effective, but it burned through fresh water continuously, which is where the headline numbers come from today around "data centers use a massive amount of water." The data centers we revealed at Build today don't work that way. The cooling loop is closed. Water is added once during construction and recirculates indefinitely between the servers and the chillers. No evaporation, no fresh-water resupply! Satya put the scale in plain terms: a full year of water use is roughly what a single restaurant uses. Keep in mind that for us, every liter and every watt is an optimization target. The economics and the environment push in the same direction!
Nicolas Bustamante139,431 Aufrufe • vor 8 Tagen

I turned Thariq's article into an interactive HTML! I was a markdown boy but since I started working at Microsoft I'm using HTML more and more. Our engineers love to send AI-generated HTML to coordinate between SWE/PM on projects since it's easier to read than markdown.
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