The generative AI industry increasingly seems pointless and wasteful.
One of the biggest problems for AI has been its energy footprint.
The server farms required to run generative AI require huge amounts of fresh water to cool them.
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Now, Wiredreports thata Bay Area startup believes it has come up with a solution to AIs energy woes.
Building a data center costs $10-20 million per MW of power capacity.
Two-thirds of this cost is land, building, and cooling infrastructure.
The only problem is that NetworkOceans upcoming test might not be exactly up to code.
Gizmodo reached out to NetworkOcean for comment.
The ocean is already full of human-related junk.
Im not sure it needs a couple thousand new server farms on top of everything else.
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Two banks say Amazon has paused negotiations on some international data centers.
