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I’m curious if you looked into the industry to see how much water and power modern data centers actually use or whether you’re just blindly accepting the popula

• oaxacaoaxaca 5mo ago
  Like what? And are you trying to say they're not harmful? I'd love to hear your reasoning. For me, 10 seconds of googling shows verifiably true claims of data centers having all sorts of negative impacts. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/with-ai-on-the-rise-what-will-be-the-environmental-impacts-of-data-centers-180987379/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/with-ai-on-the... https://sustainabilitydialogue.uchicago.edu/news/data-centers-pollution-and-the-communities-left-behind/ https://sustainabilitydialogue.uchicago.edu/news/data-center... https://www.eesi.org/articles/view/data-centers-and-water-consumption https://www.eesi.org/articles/view/data-centers-and-water-co... https://ketos.co/data-centers-water-usage-myths https://ketos.co/data-centers-water-usage-myths