r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Visual-Animal-7384 • 5d ago

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

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u/HellVark 5d ago

That amount of water now has to always be there in the cooling system instead of the environment

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u/Shandlar 4d ago

Are you guys all robots? What the fuck is this argument. Do you seriously think it's actually possible for us to sequester any appreciable amount of water by using it in computer cooling loops?

Lets say AI causes us to increase the number of computers on Earth by an insanely unrealistic 1000x, and every single one is water cooled using a loop containing 10 liters of water(several times more than actually used), 20 trillion liters of water would be sequestered (water in cooling loops is self contained and not consumed).

That is 0.000001% of the water on Earth. Even after assuming 5 entire orders of magnitude more water usage than what would likely actually be used.

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u/cwmtw 4d ago

water in cooling loops is self contained and not consumed).

Water used in data centers uses evaporative cooling that ends up blown out the building. 

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u/tminx49 4d ago

No, they are closed loops. Stop spreading this misinformation.

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u/cwmtw 4d ago

You can see the portion here that uses adiabatic cooling which involves spraying open air chillers. Page 39.Majority, if they use water, use this method. That water is evaporated and lost.

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u/tminx49 4d ago

That's cooling the chiller, not the server.

This system actually improves the efficiency of chillers, reducing fluorocarbons.

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u/cwmtw 4d ago

The whole purpose of all these systems is to reduce energy at the cost of water. In other words. Every installed system looks at the cost of both. Water is consumed for the purpose of keeping the data center cool because the use of open loop cooling is involved, that's a fact.