How Memphis became a battleground over Elon Musk’s xAI supercomputer (www.npr.org)

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“The local utility says it’s going to need a million gallons of water per day and 150 megawatts of electricity — enough to power 100,000 homes per year. “

I wasn’t sure what they meant with that water usage. Like does the water get recirculated and it’s a one time expense? Or is it a million gallons discharged into a river or sewer ever single day? Is it tainted? Or just evaporates from a cooling tower? Seems like a huge waste.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

This is the scale of things that Microsoft of all things considered and discarded because of what it could do to the power grid. But they didn't have a genius behind the wheel, so it'll be fine.

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