An increasing percentage of new data centers are using closed-loop water cooling systems. These don't waste water - they don't let the water flush away or evaporate, they fill up once and don't need to draw on water any more.
Data centers using this type of cooling system are not a threat to water supplies (look at the number of these types of data centers popping up in the desert in places like Nevada).
The big issue is energy costs. If not built concurrently with sufficient sources of power they drive up stress on the energy grid and increase the costs to consumers for electricity.
Social media uses much more data center water than AI. If we actually care about this issue, we need to stop browsing and posting and we should have Reddit shut down.
Ai guy dates alleged Chinese spy. Us government does unlimited spending on noise makers. Corporations offer to buy surrounding homes at a discount.
The regimes just adding as much debt to the country as possible due to narcissistic collapse over Obama and Biden era changes to the business sector that fowled a bunch of their laundering and other types of fraud.
EB-5 visa fraud is the new frontier and a lot of developers are facing investigations and hearings for it. They’re deporting poor workers while importing straw buyers for foreign corporations that aren’t allowed to operate here. This makes it seem like wealthy foreigners are moving here instead of the falsified image by the faux news channel that also runs a real estate business. They also contact us citizens to do this then rig up cash flows to them so at glance the paper work looks legit.
Straw buying was how a lot of Chinese spray pack(bad cannabis sprayed with terpenes) operations staffed by slaves managed to evade detection.
You’ll see this activity in the areas around loud data centers btw. Since those homes got devalued groups are looking to buy them up and it’s an absolute guarantee that in 3 years these data centers will be quiet then the houses will be sold at 2-3x the purchase rate.
Straw buyers also vote at community hearings on policies that favor the corporations or to stifle competition.
Wtf fuck didn't they build more of these in Canada sooner, Lake Ontario alone without any additional rain water or river water could sustain every single Data Centre in the world, not just AI Data Centres for over 500 years!
Aniakchak | 20 hours ago
Datacenters can be build as a closed loop system, we just need regulations and enforcement.
Euthyphraud | 13 hours ago
An increasing percentage of new data centers are using closed-loop water cooling systems. These don't waste water - they don't let the water flush away or evaporate, they fill up once and don't need to draw on water any more.
Data centers using this type of cooling system are not a threat to water supplies (look at the number of these types of data centers popping up in the desert in places like Nevada).
The big issue is energy costs. If not built concurrently with sufficient sources of power they drive up stress on the energy grid and increase the costs to consumers for electricity.
beigechrist | 10 hours ago
Boo, down with data centers and Ai.
Zanthous | 21 hours ago
Nothing, probably
neloish | 22 hours ago
Stop watering you lawns and golf courses and you will save 10000 times more water than Data centers use.
cityshepherd | 17 hours ago
I too am on team “grow food not lawns”.
yukumizu | 21 hours ago
Why not both?!
neloish | 21 hours ago
Why are you using reddit if you don't like data centers?
_ECMO_ | 20 hours ago
For one, AI data centres are vastly worse and the normal ones we have had for decades.
omegaphallic | 20 hours ago
Not all of them are actually, it varies greatly.
LexEight | 5 hours ago
No it doesn't
nzclknzspfoeSdf | 22 hours ago
Social media uses much more data center water than AI. If we actually care about this issue, we need to stop browsing and posting and we should have Reddit shut down.
Lost_Department_2177 | a day ago
Also this is something to consider.
Ai guy dates alleged Chinese spy. Us government does unlimited spending on noise makers. Corporations offer to buy surrounding homes at a discount.
The regimes just adding as much debt to the country as possible due to narcissistic collapse over Obama and Biden era changes to the business sector that fowled a bunch of their laundering and other types of fraud.
EB-5 visa fraud is the new frontier and a lot of developers are facing investigations and hearings for it. They’re deporting poor workers while importing straw buyers for foreign corporations that aren’t allowed to operate here. This makes it seem like wealthy foreigners are moving here instead of the falsified image by the faux news channel that also runs a real estate business. They also contact us citizens to do this then rig up cash flows to them so at glance the paper work looks legit.
Straw buying was how a lot of Chinese spray pack(bad cannabis sprayed with terpenes) operations staffed by slaves managed to evade detection.
You’ll see this activity in the areas around loud data centers btw. Since those homes got devalued groups are looking to buy them up and it’s an absolute guarantee that in 3 years these data centers will be quiet then the houses will be sold at 2-3x the purchase rate.
Straw buyers also vote at community hearings on policies that favor the corporations or to stifle competition.
omegaphallic | 20 hours ago
Wtf fuck didn't they build more of these in Canada sooner, Lake Ontario alone without any additional rain water or river water could sustain every single Data Centre in the world, not just AI Data Centres for over 500 years!
firedrakes | 18 hours ago
Context? Nah rage bait sorry on water usage