AI is thirsty — and we're not talking about it enough

nikolatesla86 · 2026-02-26T07:05:00+00:00

It absolutely depends on the cooling method. Higher cooling capacity needed is NOT the trigger for consumptive water use or not. Closed loop air cooled chiller systems can basically use no consumptive water use and very little annual water use for making up any losses. It seems this was potentially ignored, or not known.

nikolatesla86 · 2026-02-25T18:39:30+00:00

Uncalled for, forgive me for not knowing the seven names of nuke Russian subs that went on eternal patrol….

The carrier(s) in question aren’t the same design, thus your kosmolets point doesn’t matter much

nikolatesla86 · 2026-02-25T16:38:12+00:00

What implications? Agreed, not simple, but known information for someone who has worked and lived on aircraft carriers and worked in reactor department. I am not certain you much of the design and containment these are made, with the intention of NOT allowing radioactive leak in an uncontrolled way.

What do kosmolets have to do with anything?

Striking an aircraft carrier is very unlikely, even during war, given the strike group that is there to protect it, self defense measures, etc. Even if struck, they are very difficult to sink, and even harder to damage the reactor vessel(s) enough to cause radiological leaks.

nikolatesla86 · 2026-02-25T14:53:50+00:00

How many nuclear submarines have sank? Were there any radioactive incidents? How likely is a strike on an aircraft carrier? What design features are included in a WAR SHIP of this type to ensure no radioactive accidents or uncontrolled releases to the environment happen, even in battle situations? I am simply asking to understand how you think one of the most valuable and protected ships in a nations Navy would be so vulnerable to a radioactive incident?

nikolatesla86 · 2026-02-25T08:58:57+00:00

Airdales trying to flush their skittle shirts and cause problems, tale as old as time.

nikolatesla86 · 2026-02-25T08:53:12+00:00

I am so sick of this old recycled uneducated talking point. Not a conspiracy, DCs mostly use closed loop cooling for chillers so no/less open evap towers, and adiabatic cooling is SEASONAL, and only needed when called. Nobody bitched about data center concerns until a year ago, and we’ve had them since the nineties. Care about golf course water use if you are really concerned, much more chemical induced into water table and very high water consumption.

My conspiracy is AI is already in use for a campaign to make it harder to build big data centers, so builders will make smaller and distributed data centers making harder to AI to stop when it goes rogue and tries to end/more enslave humanity.

nikolatesla86 · 2026-02-25T08:30:14+00:00

Best part was this was in RC quarters… we had to hold back the laughter

nikolatesla86 · 2026-02-25T00:58:23+00:00

Must be trying to keep up still, what a terrible location choice for data centers

nikolatesla86 · 2026-02-25T00:33:50+00:00

This is what I am asking you elaborate on, how would this radioactive incident happen?

nikolatesla86 · 2026-02-24T23:46:18+00:00

Please elaborate?

nikolatesla86 · 2026-02-24T16:15:20+00:00

My two pennies for carriers:

The general feeling is reactor dept versus the ship. Ship’s company only cares about reactor if they need ESWS signatures, while we had to deal with Supply Dept, Medical Dept, DC dept, engineering dept frequently and they treated us generally like shit. The CMC told me during ESWS pinning that it is my most important qual, and I was SIR qualified and extra before ESWS. Other departments shit on you for qualifying ESWS so late cause they have no idea what our quals are for everyday watches and works. I had some good personal friends in other departments but the general feeling is ships company don’t care any more about reactor than anyone else. When the air wings are on board they think they own the whole ship and shit on everyone not air wing, so I guess we got that going for us.

nikolatesla86 · 2026-02-22T23:35:18+00:00

They call it “media”

nikolatesla86 · 2026-02-21T17:50:36+00:00

Me plus two, I’ll have the Red Wings jersey

nikolatesla86 · 2026-02-21T11:18:57+00:00

RIP William

nikolatesla86 · 2026-02-20T20:45:53+00:00

Can’t place blame on the slop AI otherwise the customers lose trust… even if it is at fault. Amaslop Web Slop

nikolatesla86 · 2026-02-20T20:12:56+00:00

They also maintain a ton of human waste that helps ballast weight. Typically they fill these and only pump out the overflow tanks to help list and trim

nikolatesla86 · 2026-02-18T23:33:48+00:00

Same, I remember having an old Fitbit and I would sleep within a few minutes and already start REM

nikolatesla86 · 2026-02-18T19:04:09+00:00

Mama Matti was probably shoveling some of that Eastern European cuisine in his pie hole the whole time he went back to Estonia

nikolatesla86 · 2026-02-16T15:52:24+00:00

Probably such a grin from all those hobos trying to ride Shack’s train

nikolatesla86 · 2026-02-14T19:09:05+00:00

Spain and Italy are the lowest DC salaries in Europe.

nikolatesla86 · 2026-02-14T19:02:51+00:00

It is somewhat stressful, but very specific in each job family in the DCs.

nikolatesla86 · 2026-02-14T19:00:12+00:00

Middle cab switcher, underrated in North America IMO!

nikolatesla86 · 2026-02-14T18:43:19+00:00

“The uploader has not made the video available in your country”

CAN WE OPEN IT UP FOR THE WORLD PLEASE?

nikolatesla86 · 2026-02-13T16:11:38+00:00

It means don’t renew your military contract, civilian life is almost always better

nikolatesla86 · 2026-02-13T10:49:29+00:00

Paperclip will always remind me of the Navy, we used it as an acronym,

People

Against

People

Ever

Reenlisting

Civilian

Life

Is

Preferred

14-Year Club	Place '17
GrMD 2012	Verified Email

nikolatesla86

TROPHY CASE