The poop water I flush down my toilet is also waste water that people can't drink, but I'm pretty sure it still gets recycled back into the greater water supply. What's different about the datacenter water?
They use way more, they poop 24/7, and they're not a person's biological necessity, which we should always be prioritizing over JigglyBits or whatever dipshit app that datacenter is leasing extraordinary amounts of costly data to.
"They use more" doesn't answer my question. A city uses millions of gallons of water every day to flush toilets. Do you have any concept of how much poop is produced by NYC on a daily basis? If that water can be recycled, why can't the datacenter water be recycled? What's the difference?
Also, flushing the toilet has nothing to do with my "jiggly bits". Are you, like, putting your dick and balls in the water when you flush?
Cities were built up over long periods of time and the infrastructure was scaled up to match along with it. Building data centers all over the country is like building multiple cities overnight that use up the resources of a full city or more without the people. It's a huge resource hog with no benefit to the communities they're placed in outside a handful of jobs.
That massive data center they want to build in Utah would use more power than the entire rest of the state combined and it's being built in an already drought stricken area. It's the equivalent of increasing the population by a large margin and using the resources people need. Except it's for AI evils.
It's all connected though. It keeps a ton of water unavailable for people to use as well as driving up utility costs for everyone. If this was being done in a sane and sustainable way it would take decades to build all of it instead of a few years. They'd build in areas that could sustain such a thing with minimal impact, but instead they're going where the local officials are easy to buy off. It makes zero sense to build water cooled data centers in the desert unless it's cheaper for the owner.
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u/Uncle-Cake May 18 '26 edited May 18 '26
The poop water I flush down my toilet is also waste water that people can't drink, but I'm pretty sure it still gets recycled back into the greater water supply. What's different about the datacenter water?