Satya Nadella claims Microsoft's Fairwater AI Superfactory uses closed-loop cooling to consume only a single restaurant's worth of water annually

Water usage in data centers really is the fakest issue I’ve seen in a long, long time

@satyanadella well shit this is blowing up, we cover datacenter water myths and all other AI related things, weekly on @thursdai_pod

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@altryne @satyanadella That’s not true. Currently less than 10% of all hyper-scale data centers run on closed looped systems. They require between 50 and 100 million gallons of water of a day just to keep their systems running.

@altryne @satyanadella You're flipping INSANE. Stop lying. People aren't dumb. You're dumb for actually saying that garbage

@TessInLkwd @satyanadella Source me

@DataJuggler007 @satyanadella 😂 this is the same response as "but I can't eat AI" when I tell folks that water used for watering California Almonds is 5-7x all of the US datacenters combined

@satyanadella @thursdai_pod no more restaurants!?

@altryne @satyanadella "Datacenters run on a closed loop cooling system, the water usage of a datacenter for an entire year is roughly equivalent to a usage of 1 restaurant!"

If you didn't mean all datacenters you should have specified with "some" or "many". That is how English works.

@altryne @satyanadella Cooling towers must be flushed because the PPMs of the water increases daily and without flushing the solids out the whole system would foul. This in addition to the make up water that must be added to replace the water that evaporated during operation.

@altryne @satyanadella People want restaurants though. Big difference, bad comparison.

@timeoutburner @demondivision48 @altryne @satyanadella You won’t believe me, so maybe you’ll believe AI.

@altryne @satyanadella One google data center campus uses 1/3rd of the entire towns water supply.

It’s a lot more than a restaurant.

@satyanadella @thursdai_pod What's the next fake issue?

@altryne @satyanadella

@altryne @satyanadella You won’t be believe me .. how about asking AI?

@Pepper_Rides @satyanadella Is this.. .grok?

@bjmtweets @satyanadella Which town?

@altryne @DataJuggler007 @satyanadella And don’t tell them about the Golf industry water use - sooo many benefits to society.

@altryne @satyanadella Not all datacenters run on closed loop, and to claim so is a blatant lie

@altryne @satyanadella I'm sure the enraged masses will calm down and change their minds once they get dry facts delivered by a billionaire tech CEO that they see as part of the problem.