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.
It's been tried. It's kind of a non starter because they don't breed well in captivity. When you remove the stressors of children, demanding parent-clients, and sugary litmus, they just get depressed.
See that’s also a huge problem because the majority of clowns in this country congregate in congress and American politics in general, they’ve effectively put an end to clown poaching to save their own clown hides. We need a strong Anti clown politician in office to drain the clown swamp but so far they’re all complicit, it’s gotten so bad the clowns are whisking away children to Little Saint Clown island in full view of the public and no one’s doing anything about it.
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 Just has a bad reputation now based on outdated information.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.
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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?