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

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[–] icerunner_origin@startrek.website 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

TLDR: 500ml bottles. They could have just as validly said it's one 13.5 million litre bottle.

[–] 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!

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

At least they're saving on plastic waste/s