Oregon communities envision 9,100 acres for new data centers, quadrupling the industry’s footprint
Oregon communities envision 9,100 acres for new data centers, quadrupling the industry’s footprint
Data center : l’intérieur du plus grand #datacenter au monde, dans le désert du #Nevada
Aux #EtatsUnis, plus de 2 000 chantiers sont en cours. Dans les cinq ans, 1 000 milliards de dollars (865 milliards d'euros) vont être investis dans ces cathédrales du #numérique, aux quatre coins du pays. https://www.franceinfo.fr/replay-magazine/france-2/envoye-special/video-envoye-special-a-filme-l-interieur-du-plus-grand-data-center-au-monde-dans-le-desert-du-nevada_7893068.html
#Alsace : le projet de #Microsoft épinglé pour son impact environnemental https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]o/116309046373887636
What if we turned "dead" office space into 20-story gravity refrigerators for AI? 🏙️🌬️
I’ve been digging into the Trompe—a 19th-century tech that uses falling water to compress air—and realized it’s the perfect solution for the modern data center crisis.
The Concept:
Retrofit an old elevator shaft with a high-viscosity "slimy" fluid (think plant-based thickeners).
The Power Stroke: You drop the fluid 20 stories. The viscosity "locks" air bubbles in place, creating a liquid piston that crunches air to 8 bar at the basement level.
The Isothermal Win: Because the air is "bathed" in the liquid as it’s squeezed, the water sucks the heat away instantly. You get a blast of 10°C air at the bottom with zero moving parts. * The Feedback Loop: Use the AI server waste heat to "fizz" the fluid at the bottom. This creates a natural Siphon/Airlift effect that pushes the warm liquid back to the roof for free.
Why this beats traditional cooling:
Unlike evaporative cooling, this is a closed-loop system. No massive water waste, no humidity spikes, and no mechanical compressors to break. Just gravity, viscosity, and the server’s own heat powering its own "lungs."
Is it time to stop fighting thermodynamics with electricity and start using building height as a service? 🚀
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trompe
#AI #DataCenter #Engineering #Sustainability #GreenTech #Trompe
Meta Partners with Arm to Develop New Class of Data Center Silicon
#HackerNews #Meta #Arm #Partnership #DataCenter #Silicon #TechInnovation
#Datacenter en #Alsace : le projet de #Microsoft épinglé pour son impact environnemental
Le projet de #data center géant de Microsoft dans le #HautRhin est sévèrement critiqué. La Mission régionale de l’autorité environnementale (MRAe) pointe un dossier incomplet et recommande de suspendre la procédure, révélant de fortes incertitudes sur ses impacts. https://www.rue89strasbourg.com/data-center-alsace-projet-microsoft-epingle-impact-ecologique-384574
I know people who have built a new house but can’t get connected to the electricity grid because it’s already overloaded. Yet the data centre down the road is getting a massive connection because, well, people do need to be able to ask AI who the Pope is.
#Google #eau #climat #Chili #IA #data #datacenter La tragédie se poursuit, s'intensifie pour ces IA qui pompe l'eau. L'EAU pour des #donnees
Au Chili l'eau est une affaire privée.
Google est propriétaire à vie de l'eau... l'entreprisr use 50 l. par seconde... la consommation de 8500 foyers.
https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/128630-000-A/chili-asseche-par-les-data-centers/

Au Chili, l’eau disparaît. Pas seulement à cause de la sécheresse, mais aussi du cloud. Ce nuage qui n’amène jamais de pluie. Dans la banlieue nord de Santiago, les marais s’assèchent, les nappes phréatiques se vident et les paysans se retrouvent contraints de migrer.
The key takeaway isn’t just compression—it’s where the bottleneck shifts. KV cache has been dominating memory footprint in long-context inference, so reducing it changes the cost structure significantly. But it doesn’t remove the constraint entirely.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #TurboQuant #Google #AIMemoryWall #AICompression #KVCache #LLMInference #AIInfrastructure #MemoryBottleneck #ModelEfficiency #AIHardware #DataCenter
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