How about water usage rates that penalize bulk consumers instead of giving them cheaper rates?
Woah woah woah. Those billion dollar companies are investing in our town, that’s why we are giving them the equivalent of millions of dollars a year for free. -s
big farmer wouldn’t like this, and big farmer gives America the corn syrup it needs to survive
Might be better to not allow them in the first place…
I definitely agree that if the logistics don’t make any sense then you shouldn’t build them there.
~Side note: this is also why I think Florida, Nevada, and Arizona shouldn’t have hockey teams. It’s an affront to nature.~
As much as I am the Florida and Vegas hater that I am when it comes to hockey, the seasons are played so late into spring these days almost every team but Winnipeg is going to be affronting nature. Ill give you that florida humidity and heat must really be the worst of the worst though.
Sorry to say but this is just one aspect of dropping out of all climate contracts national, international and global. And yes, AI is making this much worse.
“Hyperscale data centers are the really large data centers that are being built now for [generative] AI, which is really driving a lot of the growth in this sector because it requires vast data processing capabilities,” said Volzer. “The trend is larger and bigger centers to feed this demand for AI.”
Much of the water used in data centers never gets back into the watershed, particularly if the data center uses a method called evaporative cooling.
Think about that the next time you “ask ChatGPT” something.
Just one more reason not to use servers located in the USA for anything.
How about reducing our dependence on data centres by using software that is more peer to peer and local first etc?
Of course some data centres have legitimate use cases, such as big data analysis on weather and climate data etc, but building huge data centres for social media and running everything in the cloud is silly from an environmental perspective
What do datacenters need large volumes of running water for? Can they not do a continuous loop? It’s for cooling computers, right? That can’t be done with a closed loop of water?
All water is drinking water if you’re brave enough
Relocate those Native American to reservations because those computers need a place to live. Or something like that.
