Ann Vaughan

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778 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 13 Jul

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That's right.

Let's look at the electric sector though, but it's still, it uses around 45 trillion gallons annually, the power sector.

To cool thermal power.

So thermal power would be like

coal plants, natural gas plants, and nuclear plants.

As opposed to solar or hydroelectric.

Only about 5% of that is fully consumed and it's returned to its source.

There are regulations around this, but none of us like to think of warm water going into a pristine ecosystem.

There's regulation around this and there's ways that it is dealt with.

Yeah.

Right, yeah.

And it changes the fishing conditions and you can't fish at all.

Yeah.

Yeah, so...

The electric sector, this is where you really want to focus when you're thinking about data centers.

So members of the data center industry have made significant strides in changing how they do water out of necessity.

So AI,

runs hotter than traditional computing.

It takes a lot more electricity and it puts it into much denser racks of tightly, tightly networked chips and servers and memory and all this stuff.

And so they've now learned to do what's called closed-loop cooling.

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