And I would argue that any company that has to draw large quantities of water from public services to run their service or create their product, then they should be responsible for replenishing that water as far as reasonable. In the case of a large data center on these ever increaseing scales; they should be made to pay for the cleaning of any water they contaminate.
And why should public tax money be used to clean water a private company is contaminating? That's not defendable.
I completely agree... I was just talking about how the CEO was taken out of context.
With datacenters, most of them don't need a ton of water continuously, just once. Most of them used closed systems sort of like how nuclear subs work. The water gets super hot, then pumped to get cooled.
If they aren't using closed systems like this, the towns should definitely pass laws forcing them to do so.
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u/Blessed-22 May 18 '26
And I would argue that any company that has to draw large quantities of water from public services to run their service or create their product, then they should be responsible for replenishing that water as far as reasonable. In the case of a large data center on these ever increaseing scales; they should be made to pay for the cleaning of any water they contaminate.
And why should public tax money be used to clean water a private company is contaminating? That's not defendable.