Scotland

699 readers

30 users here now

Fàilte gu Alba!

Mon in tae Scotland!

Welcome to Scotland!

Quick rules:

dinnae be a cunt
posts should relate tae Scotland
one post per topic please

Have at it, and haste ye back

Related communities

!Airdrie@lemmy.world

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

Olap@lemmy.world

Scottish data centres powering AI already using enough water to fill 27 million bottles a year (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Olap@lemmy.world to c/scotland@lemmy.world

3 comments fedilink hide all child comments

That's a lot of water y'all. Scotland with it's abundance of renewable energy makes us a famtastic site for computing centers. But water pressure is already present in the central belt in summer, planning permission should probably have to mandate these closed systems

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Olap@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, curious measurements when the litre is so understood. Should we have it in quarter gills instead? 180 million big nips!

Lots of water anyway you look at it!