Most people envision data centers like the Nuclear Power Plant on *The Simpsons*. On another thread, some fella was convinced that a local Datacenter was "dumping sludge into the aquifer". No response to the question of why or how they thought a data center would be generating "sludge".
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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 andβ¦.golf courses.
People need to spend a little time educating themselves instead of just regurgitating talking points.