The key thing for data centres is that they should be built a long way from air corridors which makes a large part of most cities a bad location. There are very few staff in them these days so being close to a major population centre is not necessary. Access to power is the major issue and as cities don’t have spare gigawatts going spare and lots of cabling is needed any which way.
The whole concept of these bloated data centres being built for AI (read LLM) is really a fools errand. The Chinese have demonstrated DeepSeek using a lot less computing power for the same result. The way technology works is that every thing gets refined and tuned and then there is a step change in performance. These data centres won’t even payback the cost before they are obsolete or surplus to capacity.
Not so much if they don’t have cooling towers and are air cooled. I’m sure it’s cheaper to use water if you can get it for next nothing so that’s why the Techbros are all for using it.
The key thing for data centres is that they should be built a long way from air corridors which makes a large part of most cities a bad location. There are very few staff in them these days so being close to a major population centre is not necessary. Access to power is the major issue and as cities don’t have spare gigawatts going spare and lots of cabling is needed any which way.
Yeah we have heaps and heaps of unused land, land isn’t the problem. Just don’t put it on the small bits of land that humans live on
Land is fine, power is already obscenely expensive. Fuck every part of this in my mind.
The whole concept of these bloated data centres being built for AI (read LLM) is really a fools errand. The Chinese have demonstrated DeepSeek using a lot less computing power for the same result. The way technology works is that every thing gets refined and tuned and then there is a step change in performance. These data centres won’t even payback the cost before they are obsolete or surplus to capacity.
they need tons of fresh water too.
Not so much if they don’t have cooling towers and are air cooled. I’m sure it’s cheaper to use water if you can get it for next nothing so that’s why the Techbros are all for using it.