But with all that spending going into the AI buildout, there’s one question many don’t appear to be asking: where is all of that electricity actually going to come from?

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    6 hours ago

    You’d think with budgets of billions, they could afford to build them near lakes/rivers in sunny areas, and do their own cooling and solar. But apparently that major component of a datacenter design - cooling and power - is rarely taken into account.

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      They could, but that would mean water treatment before being used (money their profit-driven asses refuse to spend). It’s why they always go for drinkable aquifers: the water is already high-quality, and fuck everybody who needs it to live!