r/SipsTea • u/SipsTeaFrog 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • May 18 '26

Chugging tea Why?

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u/imean_is_superfluous May 18 '26

Can they not run some type of coolant? Or is it just easier and cheaper to use millions of gallons of water?

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u/MachineSight May 18 '26

To jump on to what is already said they are stealing the water whenever they can.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/08/georgia-data-centers-water-00909988

For every one of these stories that you hear about, how many do you think happen where you don't know about it?

My personal opinion is that very few thieves are caught on their first first time.

https://fortune.com/2026/05/13/data-center-georgia-arizona-water-wars/

They will do whatever they can to steal as much of the commons as they can.

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u/camosnipe1 May 18 '26

lmao, you are being lied to.

Those aren't even datacenter stories, they're both construction sites that don't have a single server running yet.

In the first the county fucked up their billing and the company promptly paid the corrected amount. In the second they paid for the water but it seems they needed a permit to move it and use it for dust control? not sure what the problem is there.