Amid soaring demand for AI, data centres chase water, energy savings

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Marseille: French Mediterranean ports are examining three data saving centers with cruise ships and freight at the Mediterranean port, Marceli, pumping old coal mine to water saving cooling methods.

Such efforts are in the light of light because one of the environmental priorities of the World AI Summit in Paris in Paris uses the growing amount of productive artificial intelligence (AI).

Port side data centers, “about 3,000 cubic meters (100,000 cubic feet) per hour,” said Fabris Cociovs, president of the French business of French Digital Reality, Fabric Cocau, President of Digital Reality.

Keeping the edge of the server at a maximum temperature “is incapable for human use […] Look at minerals and particles, “Cocau added.

Digital reality counts large platforms in clients for processing and storage, from Microsoft to Disney and T -TaTok.

In recent months, the Marsley site has seen a supercomputer installation that strengthens the operations of the AI ​​start -up cysters.

Each door on a heavy secure site is opened by a fingerprint scanner.

At 14 ° C (57 ° F) available throughout the year, the coal mine enters a closed loop system called “River Cooling” into the server room heat exchangers.

The data center machines should be kept at 25 ° C and the environmental humidity should be kept up to 60 to 80 % for high performance, Cocave said.

Different classes

“If the cooling system stops, any computer room will climb 45 ° C within ten minutes,” he said.

“The cold is just as important as the power socket strengthens the machines,” Kokov said.

Digital Reality says its cooling of its stream has eliminated the need for energy -stricken air conditioning, which has reduced the consumption of all three data centers by 20 %.

Such a savings must be exploited if the use of productive AI and its present infrastructure is in accordance with the prediction.

“Our client, who is seeking electricity density, is in different classes that we have been doing for the past 25 years,” Cocave said.

AI chips are more powerful, which consumes more energy and produces more heat than traditional processors.

Jacks St. Marie, director of the Environment Program at the Enriya Computing Research Institute in France, said the chipmaker is like Navidia’s latest hardware “radiator”, rotating in “several hundred watts” of electricity use.

Many, many data centers still refer to air conditioning or water vapor system to cool all these

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The use of water is the environmental challenge for the AI ​​sector, along with power and raw material consumption.

Google’s data centers used 14 % more water in 2023 to reach 24 million cubic meters – which is enough to fill the 9,600 Olympic swimming pool in a two -meter (6’6 “) depth – while Microsoft It has increased by 22 %.

Alternative methods of cooling include acne air cooling, which is used by Microsoft in northern Europe and through digital reality, French operator data 4 and others.

“Our water strategy is specific to local and areas in which we work, because it has different requirements,” said Microsoft’s Ezore Cloud Computing arm infrastructure chief Alastier Spires.

Microsoft is also experiencing sinking computer ingredients in a coalin that relieves heat but does not damage parts like water.

Spirits cited the so -called “always chemicals”, “which still has a high PFAS cotton in chemicals to do so,” Sparris said, “In recent years in recent years, massive chemicals. Heads make as a pollution spread.

But even the green alternatives may face resistance in the methods developed.

In Marseille, the City Government and a local campaign group have bombed digital reality for water monopoly, which they say can be used in other ways.

The campaign, Antonian Dulett, said the water “could not be directly intoxicated, but it could be used to re -launch local agriculture projects, clean streets, water parks.”

“Although data center cooling is improving, companies can still use it for” green washing, “he said.

“You have to look at the entire production chain, from the ore to the chips, at every step with the major consumption of electricity, water and sometimes raw raw materials,” he said.