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Nvidia's Rubin-generation liquid-cooled data center design makes real strides on water consumption—but the full environmental math is a lot more complicated than the press release lets on.
Nvidia's new liquid cooling system genuinely eliminates on-site data center water use — but that only accounts for a quarter to a third of AI's total water footprint. The rest is hiding in the power grid.
After Nvidia's talent-and-IP raid left Groq without its founder or its core hardware advantage, the company just raised $650 million and is betting its future on inference cloud. Here's an honest look at whether that bet makes sense.
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