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You believe lies, 99% of data shows that data centers do not use appreciable amounts of water compared to almond farms, or gold courses, or bog standard lawns.
by tekla 4mo ago
You believe lies, 99% of data shows that data centers do not use appreciable amounts of water compared to almond farms, or gold courses, or bog standard lawns.
https://tech.yahoo.com/science/articles/data-centers-less-water-almond-134521708.html https://tech.yahoo.com/science/articles/data-centers-less-wa...
- tunesmith 4mo agocompared to almond farms? You phrase that as if almond farms use a reasonable amount of water.
- tekla 4mo agoPresent your own data
- LevGoldstein 4mo agoNot OP, but here's a link from one of the previous times this was discussed. https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/01/almonds-nuts-crazy-stats-charts/ https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/01/almonds-nuts... Almond farming uses massive amounts of water, which has caused environmental impact concerns in the past.
- konmok 4mo agoThat source says data centers use a lot of water. Less than all almond farms combined, sure, but it doesn't support the parent argument. It's also 3 years out of date, and not relevant to protests against all the data centers that have not yet been completed.
- tekla 4mo agoPresent your own data
- Silamoth 4mo agoYou say that like environmentalists support those things. We don’t. We regularly criticize golf courses as a waste of water and land. We regularly call out the water waste and ecosystem impact of manicured, uniform lawns.