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@Orb2069@mastodon.online @momo@social.linux.pizza Slightly more read self-correction: Looks like you're right for most already installed capacity with older gen chips, they run air cooled chips with evaporative cleaning to keep the buildings themselves cool, thanks! newer gen installs with newer chips are switching towards closed water loops though (the GBs I mentioned earlier) and the facilties water loop seem to only "very rarely" (.. I guess where the climate is too hot) need evaporative cooling there.

@Orb2069@mastodon.online @momo@social.linux.pizza Quick self correction: I was mixing up evaporative (ie. cooling towers) and immersion cooling, doing a bit more reading up!

@momo@social.linux.pizza Except none of it us true ... evaporative cooling is almost entirely unused in the AI industry because it doesn't work. Every NVIDIA chip (which is like, almost the entire industry at this point) uses either air cooling with giant fan walls, or closed loop water cooling with heat exchangers (For GB200-GB300s) Not arguing the business model of large AI labs though ...

@Orb2069@mastodon.online @momo@social.linux.pizza Great, a lovely article with no reference to what hardware its talking about except "AI data centers" as a label, truly authorative. No .. Virtually all AI focussed chips, at least the ones NVIDIA makes, are either air cooled or in closed water loops. You can look up their spec sheets, they're public.

@gintoxicating this is the waaaaaaay

@KrisAnathema@fediscience.org Thats .. Not what it says. It says nothing about interacting, it's talking about using a biased AI to power autocompletion of a text.