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The waste overall for data centers is beyond terrifying. Enough water for 1.2 billion people. It’s like all the GenX and Boomers looked at the challenges younge
by taurath 24d ago
The waste overall for data centers is beyond terrifying. Enough water for 1.2 billion people. It’s like all the GenX and Boomers looked at the challenges younger people will face and decided make it as bad as possible start kicking them in the ribs for good measure.
Theres going to be a reckoning.
- nichohel 24d agoYou understand that any water used is not destroyed, right?
- taurath 21d agoIt is actually consumed water.
- pizzafeelsright 24d agoWhere does the concern for all that water go? Most are closed systems. Water gets recycled. Water gets used like bathtubs and water bottles, right? You cannot believe water is destroyed.
- taurath 21d agoClosed loop systems consume like 40% more power, and aren’t recycled - they’re filled with refrigerant. We’re talking in the southwest where the river is running dry, most power plants are natural gas plants and they use water for cooling (not closed loop, evaporative). So you’ve turned on several cities worth of power plants, with the water consumption to boot, not even to fucking mention carbon costs, for your closed loop system, that you can’t just drain you have to treat it and it still evaps and needs more. From the same companies and people that brought you climate pledges, and being environmentally responsible.