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🇺🇸 | Trump promised that the US must have the largest, most powerful, and most advanced AI infrastructure in the world. Now, the first water shortages are appearing.
Denver is limiting water and forcing restaurants to serve only on request - all because the Denver metro area in Colorado hosts 46-66 data centers.
Data centers in the US consume billions of liters of water every year, and demand is rising with the growth of AI.
For comparison: a single large CoreSite facility in Denver can use up to 805,000 gallons (about 3 million liters) of water per day - that’s equivalent to the daily indoor water use of roughly 16,000 Denver households.
https://twitter.com/CryptoWhale/status/2038742354996166909?s=20
Data centers primarily use potable water for cooling, which is then lost to evaporation in cooling towers or returned to local water bodies as warm, treated effluent. While some systems recycle water in closed loops, evaporative cooling requires continuous replenishment because water cannot be recycled infinitely due to scale formation, mineral concentration, and biological growth that would damage equipment.
Evaporation: In evaporative cooling systems, water absorbs heat from servers and turns into steam, releasing the heat into the atmosphere and permanently removing that water from the local supply. Discharge: Water that is not evaporated is often returned to the environment after treatment, though it may be warmer than the source, potentially affecting local ecosystems and dissolved oxygen levels. Chemical Treatment: To prevent corrosion and biofouling, the water is treated with chemicals like biocides and corrosion inhibitors, rendering the discharged water unsuitable for drinking or irrigation. Recycling Limits: Although some water is recirculated, dilution with fresh water is necessary to flush out concentrated contaminants, meaning a portion of the withdrawn water is consumed. The water used is typically drawn from municipal systems or local aquifers, and in water-stressed regions, this consumption can significantly strain local resources, especially during summer heat waves when demand peaks. While immersion cooling and closed-loop systems can eliminate direct water consumption, evaporative cooling remains the most cost-effective and common method, leading to an estimated 45% to 60% consumption ratio of withdrawn water.
Denver would make, or make it seem like there is, a problem just to "blame Trump".
This is satire. Always finding a way to blame Trump. There’s a Water shortage in Denver because we didn’t get much snowfall this year. Literally a lot of our winter was in the 40-60s and not much rain either. We set record highs in the 80s last week on multiple days.
Are they Chem Trailing you? Still in Fla.
The water shortage in denver is because too many people move here, bring their bad habits (voting and otherwise), plant lawns, overwater lawns in a semi arid environment…vote for politicians who have grass planted in public areas that then uses too much water, and etc etc etc.
It’s simply a shit hole being flushed by the dims.
If you look up the municipal reports where available. The running theme for many of the Municipalities currently experiencing ‘Water Shortages’. That they are blaming on data centers. The cities loose more water to leaking pipes and aging infrastructure than the Data Centers could hope to use.
While the sheer quantity they use remains an issue. Most of the breathless reporting about Water Shortages is largely covering for the fact American infrastructure is in the toilet and has been for decades. And it shifts blame from municipal governments and the companies in charge of the municipal services. To the big currently and currently convenient boogeyman. We’ve become so used to the decline and dismal state of the infrastructure. We stopped noticing. Until it’s pointed out and they tell us who to pin the blame on. If it wasn’t AI and the Data Centers. They’d find something else to blame.
Private Companies have also been doing it of late as well. And putting the blame on AI for the layoffs they’re doing. When actually looking at their performance. The layoffs are usually the result of a train of poor Business decisions and miscalculations by Corporate Leaders going back years. Only now coming home to roost as there’s less and less investor dollars out there. To offset the losses.
Most of the breathless reporting about Water Shortages ...I can't breathe!!! 😂🤣
How 'bout not putting water intensive data centers in arid and semi-arid climates.
Why not ask Ai how to cool without wasting water
Now why didn't I think of that. 🤔Thanks😂
This is easy to fix. No data centers that aren't closed lopp systems. PERIOD.
Governing is not hard usually.
More people = higher demand. More businesses = higher demand. Higher demands = less supply. Less rainfall or snowfall = less supply. Environmental abuse = less supply.
This isn't a simple issue. It's compounding based on many different factors. Misuse/abuse, lax usage restrictions, faulty equipment, misrepair or disrepair, governmental corruption, climate engineering, etc.
Do not, for one minute, believe that AI centers requiring massive amounts of fresh water doesn't add to the issue, though. Falling water levels because of population growth of all types is part of the problem. It's happening in every state right now.
If AI was all that it's cracked up to be ....it could solve this issue in a nanosecond