Scottish data centres powering AI already using enough water to fill 27 million bottles a year
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c77zxx43x4vo
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
PieFed DK
TLDR: 500ml bottles. They could have just as validly said it’s one 13.5 million litre bottle.
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!
At least they’re saving on plastic waste/s