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According to Taiwan tech publication DigiTimes, most AI firms are unwilling to wait two years for HDD supplies to stabilize and are shifting to SSDs instead. To contain costs, they are choosing QLC NAND-based drives over the faster, more durable, and more expensive TLC variants.

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[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 35 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Didn't forget draining all their drinking water. Violating everyone's copyright. Driving teens to suicide. Giving terrible medical advice. And Generating csam.

[–] SuspciousCarrot78@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

The water things still baffles me. Like...just...cycle it. It's a heat exchange system.

What do they do with the water? Pump thru once and then dump it? Why can't they repurpose it? Why can't they use gray water?

I don't get it but that's likely a me problem.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Evaporative cooling. They're trying to save on their electric bills by not using AC. Or sometimes they're cooling the AC condensers themselves this way.

The amount of heat generated is so large they can't properly cool it with a closed loop system.

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