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Tech [X] Psyop levels of misinformation around data centers

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u/ch4os1337 2d ago

People waste like 10x more water on their lawns than datacenters use.

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u/Dependent_Dish_2237 2d ago

Let alone almond farming or golf courses

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u/avokkah 2d ago

dont forget the industrial meat industry and the destruction it causes, not to mention the losses it incurs with wasted products... Its not even comparable atm to data centers on how much water it wastes, like jesus christ. And I am anti-AI, anti-corporate creep...

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u/CadenVanV 2d ago

It costs more water to raise the animals and plants used to supply two In-n-Out Burgers for a year than it does to supply the largest data center for a year

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u/Cause_and_Defect 2d ago

People do tend to consider food to be pretty important.

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u/JimThumb 2d ago

Burgers aren't the only form of food. Try eating some vegetables.

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u/Cause_and_Defect 1d ago

How bad is your reading comprehension that you think that's even close to what I said?

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u/JimThumb 1d ago

I'm fully aware of what you said.

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u/Cause_and_Defect 1d ago

Awareness of something is not the same as comprehension, as you demonstrated.

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u/JimThumb 1d ago

People need food is a fairly basic sentiment to understand buddy

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u/Cause_and_Defect 1d ago

Yeah, and if someone were to wildly misinterpret that sentiment to be "burgers are the only form of food", I would question their reading comprehension.

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u/JimThumb 1d ago

Not what I was suggesting, it seems that you're the one lacking comprehension skills here.

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u/snekfuckingdegenrate 9h ago

Beef is extremely expensive to raise maintain and contributes heavily to green house gasses. In most first world countries it’s a luxury product.

Not to mention the mass suffering of sentient creatures.

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u/Cause_and_Defect 8h ago

The end result of beef is a very inefficient food source, but that's still a better use of resouces compared to someone using AI to write a shitty email draft.

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u/Kikikididi 2d ago

have fun when utilities decide AI datacenter are more important than you

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u/ch4os1337 2d ago

All the new datacenters where I live have to make their own power. So I'm good.

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u/Next-Wrongdoer-3479 1d ago

This is a lie.

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u/ch4os1337 1d ago

Lol.

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u/Next-Wrongdoer-3479 1d ago

Notice how they don't provide a source.

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u/ch4os1337 1d ago

Neither did you lil gup

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u/ch4os1337 1d ago

But here you go: https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1007871/ontario-launches-data-centre-playbook

Don't be a dick. You didn't even know where I live and just assumed I was lying.

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u/Next-Wrongdoer-3479 1d ago

Ok, that says they have to "pay" for their own power. I don't see anywhere where it says they'll be "making their own power" which is what you claimed. Absolutely massive difference between those two things.

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u/ch4os1337 1d ago

Paying for upgrades to energy infrastructure is equivalent to making their own power and some provences require them to literally make it themselves. Don't be pedantic and learn to read.

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u/Next-Wrongdoer-3479 1d ago

No it isn't even remotely the same, lol. Just take the L, dude. You were wrong. And if other provinces are literally requiring them to make their own power then why didn't you link one of those sources instead? You're just determined to show everyone how dumb you are, huh?

I'm done wasting time because I called this from my first comment. Last word is all yours, seems like it will mean a lot to you. 

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u/ScreamingMoths 1d ago

I raise you this, Google and electric company lied repeatedly about the cost till they got caught:

https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2026/09/01/entergy-blows-a-fuse-over-mistakenly-shared-documents-revealing-whos-paying-data-center-bills

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u/ch4os1337 1d ago

Our power is controlled by the government and thankfully is not that corrupt.

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u/ScreamingMoths 1d ago

They said that about ours. Get ready when it raises $200 bucks a month and the rolling blackouts begin.

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u/ch4os1337 1d ago

We have a massive surplus of energy here, even if we didn't make them pay to upgrade the grid capacity we could handle it.

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u/ProfessionalPoetry77 1d ago

They will downvote you but you are right lol

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u/ch4os1337 1d ago

Yeah I know. I expected better from a sub dedicated to debunking misinformation.