"It's not only electricity, it's also water. These data centers use a tremendous amount of water. I think Google said in 2022, it used 5.2 billion gallons of water to cool its data centers. So the combination of huge electrical needs and huge water cooling needs is... growing an acute situation," Cohan says.As tech companies race to adapt and implement the latest and greatest in AI, there's a major roadblock that could prove detrimental to the new technology.
William Cohan is a founding partner at Puck News. And he joins us now for more on this. So we're seeing these large language models becoming very advanced, very quickly. When it comes to memory storage, and the need for more energy, how big is that gap between the ability to manage this with electricity?Well, apparently the need for electricity is gargantuan.
I think Google said, in 2022, it used 5.2 billion gallons of water to cool its data centers. So the combination of huge electrical needs and huge water cooling needs is a growing and acute situation.
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