Increasing demand for data putting energy and water supplies at risk

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  • Опубликовано: 27 мар 2024
  • Global electricity demand from data centres is expected to double by 2026 with billions of litres of water needed to cool servers.
    Sky News has gained exclusive access to the world's second largest data hub in Slough to find out more.
    Sky's Science and Technology Editor, Tom Clarke reports.
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Комментарии • 45

  • @harryjones5260
    @harryjones5260 Месяц назад +11

    would have thought they could have picked somewhere higher above sea level than slough

  • @widescreen8964
    @widescreen8964 26 дней назад +4

    Why aren't they piping that heat into Slough homes?

    • @eddy66t6
      @eddy66t6 21 день назад

      Because UK tends to have more of the smaller providers rather than a few of the bigger ones. Because of that it's less efficient and more difficult to coordinate

  • @deano_bites
    @deano_bites Месяц назад +8

    Uk population expected to reach 7.5 million by 2050, UK resources running dry such a dire future the country has education system failing with it

    • @FrostByteVoyager
      @FrostByteVoyager Месяц назад +2

      Hopefully not with these declining rates.

    • @lecturesfromleeds614
      @lecturesfromleeds614 26 дней назад +1

      And we still haven't fully paid for Brexit! The worst austerity is yet to come

    • @Fjprints
      @Fjprints 26 дней назад +3

      By 2050 that’s a bit far off to make a prediction like and the population of the uk is already 67 million. 😂

    • @jacksanderson7841
      @jacksanderson7841 14 дней назад +1

      @@Fjprints I think he thinks, a lot of people are going to die.

  • @jamess1787
    @jamess1787 Месяц назад +4

    Embrace the tech, build huge lakes, cool the datacenters.

  • @nrgdigital-garywilkie3997
    @nrgdigital-garywilkie3997 21 день назад +1

    500ml of water for 1 interaction with ChatGPT? I don’t believe her 😮

  • @lw9515
    @lw9515 Месяц назад +1

    0.02 😂 Huh?? What an opening. Used to live near there and sure, it was bad but weird to hear on skynews.

  • @GK-qc5ry
    @GK-qc5ry 14 дней назад

    4000 homes! And they said Bitcoin was bad, this is gonna be worse.

  • @harryjones5260
    @harryjones5260 Месяц назад +3

    ah yes, the famously luke-warm water, from Amazon

    • @roxy806
      @roxy806 28 дней назад

      Isn't that what they put in those prime drinks hence the name? 😂😂😂

  • @lokesh303101
    @lokesh303101 27 дней назад

    Computing Requirements.

  • @lecturesfromleeds614
    @lecturesfromleeds614 26 дней назад

    I heard they were planning to use the excess heat to warm local houses?

  • @horrnett
    @horrnett 28 дней назад

    why can't we use ea water when available

  • @aqelixenergy
    @aqelixenergy 24 дня назад

    Aqelix energy will power the future energy requirements and provide consistent, reliable, renewable energy

  • @mohammedkkiani5353
    @mohammedkkiani5353 Месяц назад +3

    Information is power.

  • @user-ge4yt8lv8h
    @user-ge4yt8lv8h 25 дней назад

    Energy consumption going to less after ARM base server gets in picture.

    • @GK-qc5ry
      @GK-qc5ry 14 дней назад

      Maybe if the system stays still. In reality data centres will continue to grow

  • @GeorgeHeard27
    @GeorgeHeard27 27 дней назад

    Data and AI tech could be the open door the UK needs to boost its global status and productivity puzzle. Yet, can this happen without affecting the population's water and energy needs?

    • @bldrxyz9499
      @bldrxyz9499 27 дней назад +1

      no

    • @tlangdon12
      @tlangdon12 26 дней назад +1

      Yes. The populations water and energy needs will continue to fall as electical devices become more efficient and as homes become better insulated. Better ways of storing electricity and heat will become common place.

  • @roxy806
    @roxy806 28 дней назад

    Its allright...in 10 years we will figure out fusion and everything will be fine

  • @ValidatingUsername
    @ValidatingUsername 27 дней назад

    If only someone had a concept for using water to cool the next generation of data and computation centres and use the heat to warm the nursery beds for indoor greenhouses 😊😂

    • @tlangdon12
      @tlangdon12 26 дней назад

      Water-cooled computers have been around since the 1951. Moving the heat to somewhere that wants to pay for it is the problem. Few people want to pay for what they see as a 'waste' product but unless someone is prepared to pay, there is no money to pay for the pipes to move the heat.

  • @julianshepherd2038
    @julianshepherd2038 Месяц назад +2

    Scottish Highlands has cooler temperatures, loads of water and lots of electricity.

  • @mahohall
    @mahohall 29 дней назад

    Each person has a data foot print..if the majority of people want big data to stop then go back to post mail and a landline phone.

    • @Oliver_Saer
      @Oliver_Saer 27 дней назад +3

      Your post mail which is scanned several times as it's processed by machines in a mailing hub and your landline phone which has been disconnected from the old analogue phone lines and instead runs over VoIP (or whatever your ISP decided to rebrand it as to dress it up as their own innovation).

    • @tlangdon12
      @tlangdon12 26 дней назад

      The decision makers aren't ordinary people. It is the excutive teams at companies that innovate that are driving the additional capacity demands. If the want the power, let them pay the true cost of generating and distributing it.

  • @bonzita23
    @bonzita23 25 дней назад

    Lol this is not true IP center of world is Frankfurt

  • @TG-ts3xn
    @TG-ts3xn Месяц назад +7

    Uncontrolled and unwanted population increases

    • @stequality
      @stequality Месяц назад +4

      Exactly !

    • @julianshepherd2038
      @julianshepherd2038 Месяц назад +5

      So not a lack of investment in infrastructure?
      People arrived and went to work and paid taxes but nothing was put back in.
      Woolworths economics.

    • @damianbutterworth2434
      @damianbutterworth2434 Месяц назад

      @@julianshepherd2038 They just want to ride round on pushbike in my City. One came to our factory and lasted a week.

  • @poorfordtransitowner1627
    @poorfordtransitowner1627 27 дней назад

    Were an island race. Surely someone has realised

  • @---ROWLEY---
    @---ROWLEY--- 26 дней назад

    Turn it all off! haha

  • @s_u_n_j_a_y
    @s_u_n_j_a_y Месяц назад +1

    😋

  • @Tamanna7368
    @Tamanna7368 26 дней назад

    Move data center to antertica