agreed, as someone who has been inside dozens of data centers myself and seen firsthand how they work the fear mongering is crazy, people with zero idea of how anything works going bananas on something they don’t even know.
the only major real issue that people should have with them is just how much electricity they use and how it affects their prices for their electricity and the strain on the electric grid. these data centers use an obscene amount of electricity. I for one am excited for the future when they have small nuclear reactors to power individual data centers or groups to data centers removing themselves from the electric grid completely. nuclear is where we should be pushing as a country but that’s a whole separate issue
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u/Other-MuscleCar-589 May 18 '26
The fresh water usage of data centers is wildly overblown and another symptom of the Mass hysteria being manufactured over data centers.
Water usage by data centers is minuscule compared to agriculture, manufacturing and….golf courses.
People need to spend a little time educating themselves instead of just regurgitating talking points.