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⚡️Modern AI data centers consume more electricity than entire cities.
Scale of the problem:
The largest AI data centers devour >1 gigawatt of electricity. That's enough power to run all of San Francisco.
And you know where this energy comes from? More than half - from fossil fuels. Only a quarter - from renewables.
Why so much?
Hundreds of thousands of GPUs (like Nvidia H100s) work in synchronized clusters as one giant supercomputer. They generate so much heat that regular air conditioning can't handle it.
Solutions:
1. Mount chips on cold water plates
2. Dunk them in baths of cooling fluid
Next step: immersion in seawater 😂
And here's the craziest part:
Google is seriously considering building solar-powered data centers IN SPACE.
😐 This isn't a joke. This is 2026.
We're building AI infrastructure the size of cities, and cooling it with oceans.
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