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why can't they use piss, instead, though?
They can! We've got a nuclear power plant that evaporates water from sewage for cooling.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Verde_Nuclear_Generating_Station
If you're location-agnostic as to your datacenter, though, probably easier to just stick a datacenter by the ocean and use seawater, though. Lots of that.
EDIT: Or make use of the waste heat instead of throwing it away. If it's winter and you're a town in Alaska, say, you'd probably just as soon have the heat piped your way.
Lots of corrosion from sea water tho. Maybe a heat exchanger that gets regularly replaced would work, but then you lose cooling capacity
awesome! so there is scope to literally piss all over AI! where does one sign up?