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Critics Furious Microsoft Is Training AI by Sucking Up Water During Drought (futurism.com)
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[–] vidarh@lemmy.stad.social 1 points 2 years ago

Latency limits datacenter placement a lot, but for batch jobs like AI training it's certainly an option.