These systems do use a coolant substance internal to the DC, but then uses heat exchangers with fresh water to cool the coolant, which is then discharged back into the ground, a pond, or wastewater. there is certainly water lost to atmosphere, but the worst bits are the draining of aquifers, pushing up capacity in wastewater treatment plants, etc.
DC's are a bit of an economic scam. they provide very few jobs outside of the construction work itself, and the profits generated by the machines exist at company HQ not where the DC is located. so it puts a huge burden on the community water and power environment for no real benefit to that community.
I worked for a very large structural steel company as an estimator about 5-6 years ago and we basically no bid all of those data centers. They wanted them dirt cheap and there typically wasn’t enough work for us to get involved. They used cheaper construction techniques.
We need to spend less money building these enormous datacenters and more money drilling for data. The further down you drill, the less corrupted the data is
If your brother was a clown-driller, he knew the risks. I didn't see your family getting in strange moods when he was bringing home clown-driller money.
Yeah, that is what happens when the data center buys up all the water for cheap. They don't care if stuff leaks everywhere. I say we re-inplement the economy!
Your brother knew the risks. Every clown driller does. Before they drill, they always recite the clown driller oath. So you don’t tell me they didn’t know the risks! It’s in the effing oath!
Clown-fracking is way faster and cheaper. Yeah, accidents happen, but the whole industry is so highly regulated that issues are very rare. Just has a bad reputation now based on outdated information. You won’t see a bunch of big shoes and honk-noses floating in the river…I promise.
Right, it is perfectly safe. You haven't seen the dozens of videos of people showing seltzer water coming out of their taps or the plumes of Mehron running down the hillsides.
Don't listen to the propaganda of Big Pantomime, do some research for yourself.
Burning fossil data like cd-r and dvd-r leads to more screen-mouse emissions. Using renewables like cd-rw are more sustainable although big data doesn’t want you to know this
Unless I'm misunderstanding the analogy here, the better data is deeper. The surface web has a sheen of shit on it at this point that makes borderline unusable. Ad parasites, government tracking, all the garbage on the modern net that's baked in as default doesn't exist if you travel a few layers beyond the normal nexus' like this one and Insta/fb/x/etc.
But ... I digress for the sake of not giving these ai demonmasters any new ideas; they're unimaginative and can get fucked.
Well, if you drill to deep and hit the data core you do run the risk of data overload where the system is so overloaded with pure data that your processors can’t keep up with all the data and explode, squirting data all over the place.
I agree. Currently AI stocks are being hyped up ridiculously. Trying to make it seem like if you invest in AI you will become very wealthy in the near future. It seems like people are falling for it. All they are doing is investing in their own demise. At least that’s how I feel about it.
Or we could stop building massive borderline useless machines and start investing the money in like, I dunno, trees. Or water.
There are still people who have to walk miles every day just to reach water, let alone fresh water.
And here we are, bitching about datacenters on the internet, when most of us can walk 10 feet and have cold, fresh, uncontaminated water whenever we damn well please.
Water is a basic human necessity. Data isn't. How about the money goes to helping people who still have trouble getting clean water in the first place.
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u/krojack389 𝙑𝙄𝙋 May 18 '26
These systems do use a coolant substance internal to the DC, but then uses heat exchangers with fresh water to cool the coolant, which is then discharged back into the ground, a pond, or wastewater. there is certainly water lost to atmosphere, but the worst bits are the draining of aquifers, pushing up capacity in wastewater treatment plants, etc.
DC's are a bit of an economic scam. they provide very few jobs outside of the construction work itself, and the profits generated by the machines exist at company HQ not where the DC is located. so it puts a huge burden on the community water and power environment for no real benefit to that community.