So giant buildings full of computer servers sucking down all the local water for cooling and burning through everyone's electric and raising bills by 20% aren't enough evil?
Not a fan of this movement. But I do know, the desire for AI and cloud storage (not by me, I'm old school and prefer to write my own sentences) is consumer driven. I also know that the cooling systems for these plants are a closed loop system. So they aren't taking water to cool and then just dumping it. That's a myth driven by tree huggers
Cite your source, because if your closed-loop water system was a thing, then why are they consuming massive amounts of water above and beyond what they are permitted for?
I work for a utility company and one facet of that is load expansion. Enter Data Centers. Asking the question internally that is what I was told. Now, that may be in reference to new centers and doesn't reference centers that are already in existence. I did not go that deep. I for one am not sold on Data Centers, but I think they are coming regardless
That's actually incorrect about the closed loop system. I work with town planning in my county and city and there are 7 data centers being put in to the south of us. We saw the specs and they are not "closed" at all. They hook up to the municipal systems and then dump into the sewers after circulating the water a single time through the center. They estimated a loss of 10% and even filed contamination ground water notices. We looked into it and every single one in the state was worse than that one, and none of them were closed systems.
So giant buildings full of computer servers sucking down all the local water for cooling and burning through everyone's electric and raising bills by 20% aren't enough evil?
Not a fan of this movement. But I do know, the desire for AI and cloud storage (not by me, I'm old school and prefer to write my own sentences) is consumer driven. I also know that the cooling systems for these plants are a closed loop system. So they aren't taking water to cool and then just dumping it. That's a myth driven by tree huggers
Cite your source, because if your closed-loop water system was a thing, then why are they consuming massive amounts of water above and beyond what they are permitted for?
I work for a utility company and one facet of that is load expansion. Enter Data Centers. Asking the question internally that is what I was told. Now, that may be in reference to new centers and doesn't reference centers that are already in existence. I did not go that deep. I for one am not sold on Data Centers, but I think they are coming regardless
Are they? Evidence?
That's actually incorrect about the closed loop system. I work with town planning in my county and city and there are 7 data centers being put in to the south of us. We saw the specs and they are not "closed" at all. They hook up to the municipal systems and then dump into the sewers after circulating the water a single time through the center. They estimated a loss of 10% and even filed contamination ground water notices. We looked into it and every single one in the state was worse than that one, and none of them were closed systems.
Then I have been misinformed and stand corrected. Thank you
No worries, these are pet projects of billionaires, it's bound to happen.