• Sandbar_Trekker@lemmy.today
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    18 hours ago

    Some important context here:

    QTS told Politico the 29 million gallons were consumed during temporary construction activities, including concrete work, dust control, and site preparation. The company markets a “closed-loop” cooling system for its data centers, which recirculates the same water rather than drawing from the municipal supply.

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      10 hours ago

      construction projects don’t usually use secret unmetered hookups the water company doesn’t know about, bud.

      some important context here: almost every comment from above user is correcting the record in ai posts like this.

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        12 hours ago

        That context isn’t important at all, unless you’re implying that the correction is wrong or misleading.

        I think it’s useful to bring attention to the fact that this isn’t water being used by the data center for operations, but for its construction.

        And let’s be real, there’s a ridiculous amount of misinformation surrounding co-called “AI”, both pro and con. Someone providing context and clarification isn’t something I’d complain about. (With the caveats above.)

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          11 hours ago

          I think it’s useful to bring attention to the fact that this isn’t water being used by the data center for operations, but for its construction.

          Oh, I guess them stealing 29 million gallons of water is fine because it was during construction then. Great point, not completely ridiculous.