Water usage has been a hot topic in the AI data center world, but the numbers may surprise you.
According to the Manhattan Institute, data centers use 0.2 percent of daily water usage in the U.S. and that number has dramatically decreased in the past few years due to a new method: liquid cooling.
By moving to 45°C liquid cooling, AI factories in favorable climates can use dry coolers instead of conventional cooling-tower-based systems, cutting facility cooling water use from roughly 2.6M gallons per MW per year to near zero.
Liquid cooling enables AI factories to be both water and energy efficient, while creating opportunities for heat reuse and dispersal to local communities, allowing these factories to become energy grid assets.
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Sequoia's thesis that the next $1T company will sell work, not software, is the most important reframe in AI right now.
The argument: if you sell a copilot, you're competing with every new model release. But if you sell the outcome — books closed, contracts reviewed, claims handled — every AI improvement makes your margins better, not your product obsolete.
The key insight most people miss: for every $1 spent on software, ~$6 is spent on services.
The entire SaaS playbook was about capturing the software dollar. The AI playbook is about capturing the services dollar — at software margins.
Not "AI for accountants." The AI accounting firm.
Not "AI for lawyers." The AI law firm.
The companies that figure this out won't look like SaaS companies. They'll look like services firms rebuilt on software infrastructure.
That's a fundamentally different company to build, fund, and scale. And most founders are still building copilots.
Sequoia (@sequoia) Partner @JulienBek tells us why the next $1Trillion company will be a software company masquerading as a services firm:
"Ultimately, if you look at the TAM today, for every dollar that you spend on software, $6 are spent on services".
"If you sell the tools, the models are getting better and better and so you're at risk... whereas, if you sell the services, you're actually delivering outcomes."
"Until now, we could really just go after the $1, but now with services first and human at the centre, we think you can capture the six".
Hi @tado it would be very great to be able to manage several schedules from the App. Make a lot of sense with our new post covid remote work model. Any plan to release this feature soon ? Thank you.
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