Lee DunaFeb 25

Data centers are now hoarding SSDs as hard drive supplies dry up

https://lemmy.nz/post/34762940

Data centers are now hoarding SSDs as hard drive supplies dry up - Lemmy NZ

>According to Taiwan tech publication DigiTimes, most AI firms are unwilling to wait two years for HDD supplies to stabilize and are shifting to SSDs instead. To contain costs, they are choosing QLC NAND-based drives over the faster, more durable, and more expensive TLC variants.

Show threadAsafumFeb 25
“Why does the population hate us? We’re only completely destroying the consumer electronics market, accelerating climate change, aiming to eliminate countless jobs, increasing power costs, and stealing the works of millions of people to feed our system all so we can get even more obscenely wealthy? Please clap.”
Show threadParlimentOfDoomFeb 26
Didn’t forget draining all their drinking water. Violating everyone’s copyright. Driving teens to suicide. Giving terrible medical advice. And Generating csam.
Show threadSuspciousCarrot78

The water things still baffles me out. Like…just…cycle it. It’s a heat exchange system.

What do they do with the water? Pump thru once and then dump it?

Feb 26 at 7:30amWeb
Show threadboonhetFeb 26

Evaporative cooling. They’re trying to save on their electric bills by not using AC. Or sometimes they’re cooling the AC condensers themselves this way.

The amount of heat generated is so large they can’t properly cool it with a closed loop system.

Show threadulternoFeb 26
And clean water just reduces duct maintenance costs.
Show threadSuspciousCarrot78Feb 26
Oh. That’s dumb. Or at least, wrongly incentivized.