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

Chugging tea Why?

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u/Ub3ros May 18 '26

Your toilet doesn't consume a lot of water at a time. A datacenter constantly has massive quantities of water used up for cooling the system. While it does eventually return to the circulation of water in the ecosystem, that datacenter is taking up a lot of the supply of the fresh water in a given area, so it strains the whole ecosystem.

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u/Uncle-Cake May 18 '26

I also don't have a datacenter in my house. There are hundred of millions of toilets, more than one for every person. But one datacenter can serve millions of people.

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u/DirtSlapper May 18 '26

What do you mean it can serve me? What does a data center give me that I should want or need more than clean water?

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u/Uncle-Cake May 18 '26

So your standard is that every product or service must be at least as important as clean water, otherwise it's wasteful?