• HowManyNimons@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    ELI5 please why they don’t just put their server farms in a desert, roofed with solar panels and a big-bum battery?

    • BradleyUffner@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      The Susquehanna River that Three Mile Island sits on offers virtually unlimited fresh cold water for cooling the server farm.

      • SplashJackson@lemmy.ca
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        2 months ago

        Fucking up the temperature downstream; global warming baby! But who needs that ecosystem? It’s survive or die, and that includes the beavers! Down with trees, up with fleas(markets)!

      • leftytighty@slrpnk.net
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        2 months ago

        Transit latency is a tiny tiny fraction of the round trip time for AI processing tasks. Until AI tasks are in the order of milliseconds instead of seconds it’s a rounding error.