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byHadlock ( 143607 ) writes:
It sounds like they're permanently destroying water or something. Many datacenters line the colombia river, which is both an excellent hydroelectric and limitless water supply, and then the other big cluster is in the SE near Virgina and into the Carolinas, which are frequently flooding,
764.6 billion liters of water is about the same water usage as NYC uses in 200 days
764.6 billion liters of water is about 8 days worth of water used by California agriculture
byrsilvergun ( 571051 ) writes:
When a data center is done with the water it is not potable anymore and it is extraordinarily expensive to make it potable again. To the point where it might be cheaper to do desalinization.
None of this is necessary but it is cheaper and these data centers are already unprofitable right now and not replacing enough wages to make them profitable.
So yes molecularly speaking the water still exists but it's not in a state usable by human beings and we do not have the capacity to put it back in that stat
bysabbede ( 2678435 ) writes:
Why isn't it potable anymore? It just ran through some pipes, probably copper tubes, like it does in homes and businesses. It was heated, but that doesn't make it non-potable. If that were the case the coffee I just drank would have killed me.
byTalon0ne ( 10115958 ) writes:
Because that's the way we can say Trump is evil. Typical NPR democrat lies by omission nonsense...
There's a whole documentary on the topic of lie-by-omission news coverage you can watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
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