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How would a data centre poison the water? They don’t produce any chemicals or do anything.
by MagicMoonlight 5mo ago
How would a data centre poison the water? They don’t produce any chemicals or do anything.
- tagawa 5mo ago> Data centers can inadvertently pollute water through chemical runoff from evaporative cooling systems, including biocides, corrosion inhibitors, and heavy metals that accumulate at scale when facilities discharge up to 5 million gallons daily. Source: https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/sustainability/4-strategies-for-eliminating-data-center-water-pollution https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/sustainability/4-strateg...
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- 0xbadcafebee 5mo agoThis is the specific water pollution issue: https://www.protectouraquifer.org/issues/xai-supercomputer https://www.protectouraquifer.org/issues/xai-supercomputer The plan was to develop a recycled wastewater facility, which will pull arsenic from contaminated shallow acquifers, and pump that into the drinking water supply's acquifers.