Concern the UK's AI ambitions could lead to water shortages
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Data centres can use vast quantities of water to cool them - but it's not clear where it will come from.

On the flip side, isn’t this a chance to become the defacto world leader in desalination?

  • Zip2
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    5 小时前

    If it’s used for cooling then can’t the heat energy be extracted for some other purpose, and the water recycled somehow?

    • FeersummendjinnEnglish
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      3 小时前

      Exactly this. A large proportion of the energy used by data centers ends up as heat, it shouldn’t just be dumped. I’ve read of data centers being used to heat community swimming pools. A thought I just had was if they are using mains water to cool the data center, what stops it still being used for domestic use? It would just be warm water, which in many cases would be a benefit.