alt Hacker News>And they also need to be built somewhere, and that place is probably best where electricity is abundant and/or cheap.
They don't need to be built at the scale they're being built at. That's the problem.
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MC995 • today at 1:07 PM
> They don't need to be built at the scale they're being built at.
According to whom and by what metric? The companies investing vast amounts of capital into them seem to disagree.
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Not sure why you think your finger-in-the-wind wind understanding of future AI compute demand should trump the projections of companies who actually operate in this area?
But if you do end up being correct, then the data centers in question will just sit partially or fully idle, using no / a tiny fraction of the electricity and water they could use (which as others have said on this forum, water usage concerns are massively overblown in most data center builds anyway)