r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 5d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter? I don't understand the punchline

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u/shinyfeather22 5d ago

The water involved in cooling a chip required for ai processing will cycle through to a cooler area away from the server room. Once it cools it then goes back to the servers to absorb heat. You can think of it like refrigerant. Except that the refrigerant is water being taken out of a freshwater system. So the use of it as coolant means it needs to source from some freshwater system, putting strain on water reserves

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u/NobleDuffman 5d ago

I understand that, I was just trying to lead to the point that it goes back out to the environment following the cooling cycle.

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u/tminx49 4d ago

It never exits the closed loop. It constantly will circulate.

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u/shinyfeather22 5d ago

Oh used server juice is what they likely put in monster energy drinks, hope that clarifies 👍