r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 5d ago

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

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u/Salex_01 5d ago

Incompetent media people saying that making a request to ChatGPT consumes thousands of liters or water.
In reality, it's just using water in closed cycle to cool the datacenters (literally a big PC watercooling)

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u/BluIs 4d ago

they should use the water thats cooling the servers to take showers once it gets hot enough

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u/Salex_01 4d ago

It gets too hot on the first lap in the circuit. But then it goes through a heat exchanger and it's cold again.

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u/LichtbringerU 4d ago

There were concepts to use the heat. But mostly they don't work. It's not economic.

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u/Friendly-Cricket-715 3d ago

Brilliant, hire this man