AI's Cooling Crisis: Why Future Data Centres in Space May Not Need a Single Drop of Water

AI's cooling crisis: Why future data centres in space may not need a single drop of water

Science News: Artificial intelligence is driving an unprecedented surge in demand for computing power. Still, the data centres behind today's most advanced AI model.

Cooling a data centre on Earth can consume 10 to 30 per cent of its energy budget and millions of litres of water

By Space Daily Editorial Team  Keeping a data centre cool on Earth is a surprisingly large part of the job. Cooling can swallow anywhere from a tenth to a third of a facility’s entire energy budget, and the thirstiest sites drink millions of litres of water to do it. Move that data centre into orbit and the whole approach collapses. There is no air to blow across the servers, no cooling towers, and no river to dump the heat into. The only way le…