When people say data centers use millions of gallons of water, they're describing an old technology. Before, water went into evaporative cooling towers. Warm water pulled heat off the AI chips, then evaporated into the air to shed it. It was effective, but it burned through fresh water continuously, which is where the headline numbers come from today around "data centers use a massive amount of water."
The data centers we revealed at Build today don't work that way. The cooling loop is closed. Water is added once during construction and recirculates indefinitely between the servers and the chillers. No evaporation, no fresh-water resupply!
Satya put the scale in plain terms: a full year of water use is roughly what a single restaurant uses.
Keep in mind that for us, every liter and every watt is an optimization target. The economics and the environment push in the same direction!
Building apps has never been easier.
With Sites, Codex can turn your work, ideas, and plans into an interactive website or app your team can explore, use, and share with a URL.
Rolling out to Business and Enterprise plans, before expanding more broadly.
Never shipped so much stuff as I do today; I wouldn't be able to do what I do if I didn't have AI to help me.
It helps with;
- Book keeping where it keeps track of receipts and matches them against the right line item
- Offers - fully automated process based on transcripts from meetings
- Invoicing - same as above, triggers after each workshop / session I do
- Evalation of workshops / sessions done.
And more stuff of course.
Some of this was tricky to set up, but it has been worth the hassle.
Still puzzled about all the “AI strategists” out there who don't teach people how to use AI.
It's not that hard, but people still need help figuring it out.