What type of generation are you envisioning here? What type of cooling systems?

Agreed

Yeah I’m not versed in the subject enough to say/think you’re wrong necessarily. I do know the general slant Lemmy’s population has against it though.

Yeah, tough to have a good faith conversation about it.

I’m not necessarily in favor of data centers. That said, every time I see something like this I just wonder when we are going to start hearing about data centers being built in poor countries powered exclusively by coal and zero regulation. I really have no idea what a good outcome looks like but playing ultra hardball seems unwise. I’m very poorly educated on data centers and AI in general. But, I am an expert in electrical generation. I know we could do it pretty clean, at least relative to coal/heavy oil. I don’t think stopping data centers built in the US will magically cease the boulder rolling in the AI direction. Seems like the money is at its back so its going to happen, just a matter of when, where and how dirty.

We are going to start hearing about data centers built in poor countries powered exclusively by coal.

This is/has been a test facility, not a large scale million-s tons a year thing. Because that’s not yet possible, this is a step in a good direction. It’s a tremendous advancement that can hopefully continue to be scaled up.

Closed loop or daily use?

Yeah I hear ya, I’m trying to be optimistic.

Thats wild I haven’t had that pop up and I’ve looked at several articles there today. Sorry!

Weird, I’m able to view it without paying anything.

Is it an ad revenue thing or a purity thing? Either way, booooo.

Modern day Fordlândia.