>Data centers use water for cooling. There is no pollution and water evaporates. Evaporated water turns into rain cloud eventually and the rain falls back into the lake. Zero issue.There is an insane amount of normies that think like this. Retards that worship Elon and buy crypto and think their tech corps can do no wrong
>>108782080I also enjoy oversimplifying things and posting them to my blog.
>>108782080Don't they add an anti-corrosive agent to the water? Where does that go?
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>>108782165https://local.microsoft.com/blog/understanding-water-use-at-microsoft-datacenters/Surely they wouldn't be telling any half-truths here...
Terrible gohan and cell casting
>>108782248Not disputing the idea that they lie, but PG specifically is pretty much harmless. You need to eat enormous amounts of pure glycol to feel any kind of toxicity. You can literally inject it directly in your veins and you'll just expell it through urine. It's used in food, meds, cosmetics, oils and so on. Vape liquid is mostly made of PG and it's the least harmful component alongside glycerin.
>>108782248PG isn't that bad, it's not toxic unless you eat a lot of it. The water itself is the real concern.
>>108782248>>108782344It literally says PG is used in closed-loop systems. You don't dump that shit into the environment or need extra water beyond the needed amount when you fill up the system with the solution. It's how you use ethylene glycol in your car (that's toxic, but you only need a set amount of that too in a closed system).
>>108782080>>108782248>water used for cooling in datacenters LE BAD>water used in exactly the same way in nuclear power, air conditioning and other industries LE HECKIN WHOLESOME CHUNGUS
>>108782080>Evaporated water turns into rain cloud eventually and the rain falls back into the lake. Zero issue.I want you to understand two things.One, it takes time for water to make its way through the water cycle.Two, where the water rains back down will not necessarily be in catchments that feed where it was taken from.Water in any particular location is not an infinite resource just because the water cycle exists.>>108782454The problem is managing the available water. In the case of nuclear power they're usually drawing it from water that isn't feeding drinking supply in particular, but a lot of data centers aren't being built next to rivers or the ocean.
>>108782454nuclear power plants aren't a jeet scam
>>108782151If they use water cooling for the actual chips, yes.But those are closed loops.The air coolers and/or closed loop water coolers transfer their heat to an open loop which is just regular water that evaporates.They only add some chemicals to prevent algae from growing.
Rich people would never live near a data center or drink tap waterThere are polymers and carbon nanotubes are dumped into your drinking water at scale and nobody knows how to remove them because the technology and knowledge simply doesn't existNo one will do anything about it, the goal is to NOT live in those areas and NOT drink the water and NOT be born with a birth defectIf you do then skill issueEvery rich person knows this
when do corporation not lie, shart and pollute then pass the issue along to the average personriddle me that
>>108782080Look bro, I need to believe they waste water and promulgate this so mentally ill liberal zoomie women will sleep with me. Sorry
>>108782495Look inside the various solar vs nuclear threads we've had in the past several months and you'll see people unironically claiming that
>>108782080the problem isn't that the water is evaporative and becomes rainthe problem is that meteorology is complicated, and building your data center downstream to an already strained reservoir that sees low annual rainfall already is the reason why lake mead is at less than 40% it's peak capacity and threatens to prevent power generation from the hoover dam, yet people continue to lie about the impact of evaporative cooling in dry climates like texas and nevada like the water cycle is this magic fairy that will always put the water back upstream with no threat to water availability in an area, despite the reality that a single data center is the water consumption equivalent to a golf course, and while people in arid climates LOVE to bitch about how golf courses chug water like nothing, the narrative is somehow different for data centers because they have the money to buy better PR firms. they're functionally the same from a water usage sink standpoint.you're falling for propaganda if you don't think it's a real problem.
>>108782080>the rain falls back into the lake.The ocean, you fucking rabid animal. It should be legal to euthanize disinfo-spreading subhumans like you.
>>108782320>but PG specifically is pretty much harmless.No, and your call center is extremely harmful. I seriously pray that those drones find their way there, you don't deserve to live.
>>108782366just like PFAS, they don't dump it and yet it's everywhere
why not just use seawater or somethingim sure they can find a way to use it after filtering it a bitthey can even sell the salt afterwards or something
>>108784729>why not just use seawater or somethingThen you have to build the data centers next to the sea, which isn't where they want them most of the time (you want them centered in the target areas they will be serving mostly).
>>108784738how bout something like mineral oil thenim sure it would actually be a better solution than using waterthey'd probably cool down machinery quicker too
Guys I heard Louisiana is sinking in the ocean, why not make all the datacenters there?
>>108784927Or actually how about this: Build them far off the coast like oil rigs, or repurpose said oil rigs into Data centers when the eventual natural oil deposits dry up? Why do they have to be built on land just so the government force the people to suffer in ways that wasn't possible a decade back?
>>108784729Nah, salt ruins literally everything. Desalinization at scale is insanely expensive.Better to just steal clean water from idiots for free.
>>108782485OP doesn't hold those beliefs you illiterate swine, more reading less writing
>>108782080if you could Google for 5 seconds you will quickly realise you're the retard here.
>>108782080Why aren't they happy?
>>108782080>poisons your riverNothing personelle kid
>>108784982Massive pollution by multiple industries>I sleepImaginary pollution by AI>Real shit?
>>108784988>pollution from industry that provides benefitI writhe uncomfortably.>pollution from industry that provides zero benefit for anyoneREAL SHIT.
>>108784942>>108784988The ironic thing is that absolutely no one you would care about is "suffering".The liberal/coastal media sphere unironiclly thinks they build DCs in a high value areas.Meanwhile these DCs are built in dying hick towns and you mean to tell me people suddenly care about the well being of an area of like 20k people?Where was everyone when the factories were shutting down and driving the area into poverty?Shit is all performative.
>>108784998>AI provides no benefit
>>108785003truf nuk
Water is so I can drink and piss
>>108782080Super El Nino will teach them things
>>108782080I want to punch this motherfuckerthis sucks
can we just build all the datacenters in india?the runoff would actually help clean their rivers
>>108785003>The ironic thing is that absolutely no one you would care about is "suffering".That's only because there isn't enough people complaining about it yet.Like Professor Oak said: "There's a time and place for everything, but not now."Problem is, in the American gov't country building and a consistent infrastructure isn't exactly their doctrine. And it's easily shown in how "intelligent" my own people are... I can only hope i'm wrong.
Bulma looks like THAT????
>>108785049>That's only because there isn't enough people complaining about it yet.You don't actually care is what I'm getting at.Not a single soul screaming right now batted an eye in our direction as everything bad happened.Now suddenly I'm oppressed because a DC exists 8 miles away, one that's been there close to 20 years.
>>108785158And what i'm getting at is i don't want to find out how much i care when a DC appears not more then earshot and waterline away from our house.
Got a job as sales even though I have a SE background
>>108785053Why did it choose hag bulma
>>108785182Your delusional to even think that's going to happen.Even all the pictures of houses next to DCs, the DC was there first lmaoNow those houses have people in them and are relatively high value regardless.
>>108784790You're just thinking about how to move the heat.You still need to get rid of the heat some how, which is where this water consumption comes in. Either evaporating off water, or discharging heated water and bringing in fresh cool water.
>>108785218Funny how people think the refrigeration cycle is like not possible to use
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>>108785278I'm retarded, explain this image to me.
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>>108782080>ZERO ISSUES BRO>LIKE NONE>NO ISSUESRetard-kun>pump all the water out of the ground>ground sinks>water table fucked foreverUnderstand? You can't pump more than the system can replenish.
>>108784689it's literally nothing like psaf doeGlycol degradable.
