NEW RESEARCH: Heat pumps are highly efficient & can be flexible. ➡️ Households’ total energy use reduced by 40%. ➡️ Time-of-use pricing for heat pumps halved consumption during the evening peak and saved 18% on bills. cdn.sanity.io/files/lrxd4j...
I think there is a sector wide as well as a stock specific element here. Plenty of US apparel firms increased production, inventory, marketing on the assumption that the post-COVID goods consumption boom would continue. And now retrenchment is needed. See also: VF Corp (Vans, North Face, Timberland)
Datacentre water consumption 500 TWh/y divided by 2.2e6 J/liter latent heat. 500 TWh based on IEA Flroida usage from this doc, table 1 pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2019/514...
I find it weird how this becomes problem for datacentres specifically, as if they are the driver behind this. As a rough calculation, if every datacentre in the world moved to Florida and relied on evaporative cooling, water consumption would be 1/3 of its agriculture or 2x its lawn irrigation.
if you work for an organisation with a social mission and are exploring how you might use LLMs you need to review any carbon reduction plans you have, due to the energy usage and also think about the ethical and sustainability impacts of water consumption www.context.news/ai/video/for...
A conversation with Chat GPT can consume a bottle of water. So why is big tech setting up AI in some of the world’s driest countries?
He will be made safe for human consumption
Yeah. So if we wanna talk water consumption, using an ENTIRE NUCLEAR REACTOR for AI, is where the bigger water problem lies. Cuz that water is now radioactive and also has to be used to cool down the waste material. Nuclear power is a stopgap for climate change but not for AI.
Could you quote a sentence in that link that says that because I can’t find anything. All I could find is: “Most big tech water consumption for server cooling comes from potable sources. Here, the consumed water is actually evaporated and “lost” into the atmosphere.”
im giving myself permission to not stress out over media consumption this month bc the election is in 35 days and also my book comes out in 2 weeks
The election this year comes down to turnoutout more than undecided voters. News consumption is directly correlated to voter participation, so it does matter