CHANDLER, Arizona — This Arizona suburb sent a searing warning message to Big Tech companies after city officials on Thursday night unanimously rejected a proposed artificial intelligence data center — capping a fight that attracted powerful interests from Silicon Valley and Washington.
A lobbying push that included Microsoft and Meta and outside political pressure to approve the project, perhaps most significantly from former Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, shined a spotlight on AI industry efforts to influence local decisions around development.
They are not water hungry, this is nonsense that spreads way too much. You can cool with air just fine, circulating the water in a closed loop. There are actual issues we need to talk about.
“You can cool with air just fine, circulating the water in a closed loop.”
Sure,but are they? Wouldn’t it be cheaper to just take in water and send it right back out?
The new OpenAI data center(s) for the “Stargate” project will use closed-loop liquid cooling.
A lot of the time they are using open loop evaporative cooling, which works particularly efficiently in hot, dry, desert air.
Problem being, they’re not doing that because of the extra expanse. What you’re saying should be state mandated, hell, federally mandated.