AFAIK most water gets used in construction, and constructing city-sized facilities uses a LOT of resources. Now guess which side gets favored if there’s a resource conflict between a datacenter and the local population.
Until some regulation is passed and enforced that they have to be closed loop, it’s cheaper for them to fuck up the local ecosystem by using evaporative cooling or local water sources as a heat sink.
Those data centers use more power than a medium size city and city scale amounts of water. No. Just no.
But they don’t have to be water-cooled.
AFAIK most water gets used in construction, and constructing city-sized facilities uses a LOT of resources. Now guess which side gets favored if there’s a resource conflict between a datacenter and the local population.
They also don’t have to exist
Neither do airplanes.
We agree data centers don’t have to exist
Until some regulation is passed and enforced that they have to be closed loop, it’s cheaper for them to fuck up the local ecosystem by using evaporative cooling or local water sources as a heat sink.
Not true. My company only builds closed loop.
The “Bill Cosby didn’t do anything to me” of Big Tech defense