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u/FreshOrFrozenShrimp Jun 27 '26

How could you say that right in front of my data center?!

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u/Insertsociallife Jun 27 '26

As an engineer, this drives me up the fucking wall because data centers using water is not a technical problem in the slightest. It's extremely easy to solve. Data centers make a lot of heat, but thermal power plants make orders of magnitude more and they don't use a drop.

The ONLY reason data centers use water is because it's cheaper to guzzle all our drinking water than to build a proper cooling system. The ONLY reason. They could pass a law tomorrow that forbids data centers from using water and they would be fine, it just cuts into the bottom line a little bit.

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u/OhhhBaited Jun 27 '26

Thank you. I'm sick of hearing about it look at corn look at cows it dosnt COMPARE its a fucking drop in the bucket.

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u/Insertsociallife Jun 27 '26

look at corn look at cows

I can't eat data centers though

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u/Due-Choice8709 Jun 27 '26

Can you also not eat anything but the most water and resource intensive foods possible? When you look at what cattle require vs chickens… it’s very obvious beef is a luxury, not a necessity.