I don’t disagree with that at all.
I know quite about designing and building out these things.
The ones I have had some knowledge about do not use water except for emergency chillers that run maybe 1 week a year since it is cheaper not to. I personally did not think Data centers in Space was more than a pipe dream, but I was talking to a guy who worked for Musk and he said they were going ahead despite what I thought were large problems with heat dissipation. If you can put one in space, you can put one on earth with minimal disruptions.
yes power is needed, but mini safe reactors seem to be all the rage right now. I don’t want to be optimistic about fusion, but I have recently seen things I would not have believed only 10 years ago.
well if you were going to study this you’d probably have to look at water/energy requirements for current super computing. the main problem with AI data centers, i’ve read, is scalability, i.e., they don’t. the human brain designed by God which is much better hardware than any AI in our very best and talented, is a miracle of miniaturization and power conservation. thus it is the very definition of how to scale amazing capacities which must balance each other perfectly.
that being said. AI is the key to gov’t control of our behavior, our medicine, public health, public education, and future machines however. that makes it irresistible to our self styled and entitled masters and they must pursuit it for those reasons alone.
but one hopes it can be done to some advantage for our children’s future. i like everything Elon has done lately. i hope he’s successful in putting these in space or maybe on the moon if they need a foundation and persistence over time. he embodies a real hope for the future.
“do not use water except for emergency chillers”
They don’t consume the water, do they? They just make it warmer and then discharge back to the body of water from which it was taken, isn’t that correct.
Power consumption by data centers is not my primary concern. It’s what their final object presumably is, namely, to augment human thinking.
That’s to say they are to produce solutions that are beyond the power of us humans to produce. Not sure those are the types of solutions we need.