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!
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Adam Carolla says people who make $70M a year are the one flourishing in California
‘There is a kind of a level of wealth that things don’t bother you anymore and people gas is $785 a gallon you know if you make $70M a year what’s the difference between $4 and $5’
‘Alot of this guys don’t care before they suck it up with the wealth tax,when I was growing up in California the idea of moving somewhere else was absurd’
‘And they were like move to Nashville and I’m like what ride house I don’t even know what Nashville is when your from California you don’t even know what Montana is’
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Utah approved a data center so massive it's going to be more than twice the size of Manhattan
It’s called The Stratus Project, it’s a AI data center campus in Box Elder County
- The full project could cover over 40,000 acres, an area bigger than Manhattan
- Total size will be around 62 square miles
- The power demand is 3 gigawatts of electricity, roughly the output of multiple nuclear reactors
- Environmental groups warn it could raise Utah's planet-heating pollution by nearly 50%
- Estimates suggest the project's power systems could consume up to 16.6 billion gallons of water per year. (25,000 Olympic swimming pools)
First let’s talk about power, it will actually use up to 9 GW of power. This is roughly double Utah’s current peak electricity demand. Only the first phase will use 3 GW
Next let’s talk about water, Developers are now saying that they will use closed-loo dry (air-based) cooling systems to minimize consumption. But it’ll still use a lot of water
This is bad news for water conservation. Utah is in drought conditions, the Great Salt Lake is shrinking. It’s visible and you can see it right now
So why do we need this really, according to what I can find it’s going to be tied with defense contracts
The data center will be tied to US defense priorities. It overlaps with Department of Defense areas and is advanced through Utah’s Military Installation Development Authority. Officials cite needs for energy resilience, secure computing power, and data storage for defense operations
So this is a private data center but it’s not really a private data center…. Because it’ll be working with the government. One layer removed…
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Internet Archive Launches New Foundation in Switzerland, based in St. Gallen.
This new nonprofit group operates independently under Swiss law while joining similar groups in Canada and Europe.
• Initial priorities:
> Endangered Archives initiative: Rescue and preserve vulnerable cultural heritage and historical records threatened by conflict, disaster, institutional collapse, or suppression.
>Gen AI Archive project: In partnership with the University of St. Gallen’s School of Computer Science, aims to collect and preserve generative AI models and related systems
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A large data center in Fayetteville, Georgia, used more than 29 million gallons of water over many months while the local water company was unaware and did not send a bill at first.
Residents in the Annelise Park neighborhood complained about low water pressure, which revealed the issue.
The QTS data center sits on 615 acres with two large water pipes that were improperly installed, as one was added without notifying the water company. Most water was used during construction for pouring concrete and controlling dust.
After the error was discovered, QTS received a bill for about $150,000
The company says that once fully operational, it will use a closed-loop cooling system requiring very little water each month.
As a result, the Fayetteville City Council voted to ban all new data centers in the city.
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America is well know for odd units of measurement, but I was still surprised that buying liquified natural gas was in units of DGE, or “diesel gallons equivalent”.
Pacific Palisades relies on three 1-million-gallon storage tanks in the hills.
Water demand hit 4x normal rate for 15 straight hours.
First tank empty by 4:45 PM. Second by 8:30 PM. Third by 3:00 AM.
20% of fire hydrants, 200 out of 1,000, went completely dry.
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