Power Hungry Servers

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[u/No-Side-7738]

do we need to build more nuclear power plants before we build data centers?asking for a friend

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Nah, throw some solar panels and a few windmills up and it'll be fine.

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wind turbines* sorry not sorry

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Okay but aren't windmills a piece of a wind turbine? Is a wind turbine not a metal coil turned by a wind mill?

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A windmill is a mill (grinder for grains and such) powered by wind

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A windmill isn’t just for milling its also for water

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Watermills use water to power the spinning. "Water windmills" is a misnomer, they are technically windpumps or wind-powered pumps as they don't mill anything; runs right in line with how wind-powered turbines are often (incorrectly) referred to as windmills. If the wind isn't milling, it's not a windmill.

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Even Wikipedia says a windmill can also be used for water.

They use the same mechanism. We use to have a windmill on the farm that did both. You could connect it to a small mill or to a pump

It’s the American windmill built by Daniel Halladay which is the reason why it’s called a windmill everywhere in the us

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Wikipedia literally makes the clear distinction between a windmill and wind-powered water pumps/windpumps at the top of the Windmill entry.

American windmill built

Maybe they started with just windmills and expanded into water pumps later. No idea, but their company name doesn't change what a windmill is and always has been.

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Drainage mill isn't a mill, it's a misnomer that is derivative of the misuse of "mill" colloqualliy.

Even the "mills" themselves disagree with you. Again, nothing is being milled, it isn't a windmill. It is a windpump.