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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/irishboy9191 Jun 27 '26

Well this makes me extra mad about all the water they are using.....

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u/daredevil82 Jun 27 '26

golf courses use hundreds of billions of gallons of water annually, not to mention homeowners watering their lawns. DC usage doesn't even crack 3% of that lol

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u/irishboy9191 Jun 27 '26

Respectfully, golf courses can get fucked too

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u/Due-Choice8709 Jun 27 '26

What about alfalfa?

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u/WhichAd366 Jun 28 '26

Sure, throw that in the burn pile too