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> Now, if you increase your evaporation, you could easily drain a lot of water from your land. At which point we're back to the quadrillion watt hours of sunli
by AnthonyMouse 2mo ago
> Now, if you increase your evaporation, you could easily drain a lot of water from your land.
At which point we're back to the quadrillion watt hours of sunlight you get a day, which evaporates such a large amount of water that you have to be doing something pretty dramatic to move the needle. Which thermal power plants and data centers don't, but agriculture? It's pumping trillions of gallons of water out of the ground and into fields in that sun.
- lesostep 2mo agoGood question! Most of the heat doesn't go into evaporation. If it did, we wouldn't have higher temperature during the day, just more moist. Truth is, I personally think farming evaporation is leagues more ahead of datacenters. Datacenters are more of a nuances locally, where depleting resources already don't give enough water to keep households water pressure up. Add to that a new water-hungry datacenter, and pressure in pipes drops even more. They aren't bad on their own, but in a context where they want to share a depleting communal resource. Edit: tl;Dr farming is worse but historically there. There is a lot of discourse around that, also, but it's a separate issue.