Water
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Janous: Data centers use little water compared to agriculture and golf courses
“And if you look at the actual facts, like, data centers do not use that much water relative to, you know, fill in the blank, almonds, avocados, golf courses, you know, so.”
Beck: Power generation is the second-largest global water consumer behind agriculture
“The second largest user of water in the world behind agriculture is power.”
Katti: Data centers do not net consume new water due to recycling
“It's a misperception that data centers consume a lot of water. It's anything. They consume so little water for what they do. And all of that water is recycled. So we don't net consume new water.”
Feldman claims modern AI data centers do not require massive water consumption
“Our data centers don't need to use a ton of water. They can recycle it. You can have a closed loop.”
Zamir: Semiconductor fabs face massive financial losses without ultra-clean water
“If you're a semiconductor company that is just producing chips in the hundreds of millions of dollars worth of materials an hour, if your water isn't Clean, and we're talking medical grade you know, standards of cleanliness for semiconductor production then yo…”
Chaset: Startup puts GPUs on water heaters for 10x compute revenue
“Water is they put two NVIDIA GPUs on top of a water heater. And you know, creates heat. They suck it into the water. It heats the water. And it creates a 10 X ratio of compute revenue to electricity costs. So they can actually give water heaters away for free.…”
Doricko: Only 9% of atmospheric water over the US precipitates
“It turns out that only nine percent of all of the water that traverses the atmosphere in the United States precipitates over it. The vast majority is either recycled by the oceans, precipitates over the oceans, evaporates away, and never condenses again over t…”
Rao: India's green hydrogen targets require approximately 50 million tons of water
“India's target of five billion tons of indigenous green hydrogen production would require approximately fifty million tons of water.”
Applbaum: Israel is one of the world's largest net water exporters
“Today, Israel is one of the net largest exporters of water in the world.”
Ellis: Cement is the most produced man-made material globally
“Well, concrete is about 90% rocks and 10% cement, but even so, cement is the most massively produced man-made material in the world, and second most consumed material besides water.”
Burfield: Energy and water startups require regulatory hacking for market entry
“In a lot of sectors like energy or water, you're not going to get market entry without some form of regulatory hacking.”