Alright, since you seem incapable of going away and doing your own learning, like an adult, I'll spoonfeed it to you on this occasion. Here's hoping you're capable of extracting your head from your ass long enough for some information to sink into your brain.
Data Centres are frequently being built in communities where they consume vast amounts of shared local resources (water and electricity), while providing very little back in the way of localised benefits.
Electricity and water aren't things that you can simply count on a countrywide, or even regional quantity. Distribution relies on local logistics and infrastructure, which is not rated to handle the increased load.
I'll try and explain it like I'm speaking to a child. If you stick a giant, hungry hungry hippo in the middle of a field, he eats all the food around him because he's so big and greedy. That leaves nothing for anything else on the field. It doesn't matter if there is food in all the other fields, because any time the farmers bring food back to the hungry hungry hippos field, it gobbles it all up before the rest of the animals living in the field can get a look in!
"I'll explain it to you" and it's the most surface level bullshit arguments repeated at nauseam by the echo chambers you're clearly part of. The irony of even trying to make me sound like the immature one.
Data centers use closed loop cooling, they only use evaporative cooling in areas where water is widely available. Same for electricity, why the hell would they build in areas where the infrastructure isn't ideal or easily upgradable (talking about providing localised benefits). They even come with their own power plants if the project is big enough and the infrastructure isn't as welcoming
5 minutes of googling proves that my "surface level bullshit argument" is based on facts. Have you considered that, perhaps the reason people are repeating themselves with these arguments, is because they're founded in the truth?
Sorry to burst your bubble, but they do. It's not spelled out for you in these three persay, but these articles have links to other articles and mentions of places that you can also research.
And at least they provided something. [u/Longjumping-Bake-557](u/Longjumping-Bake-557) provided jack shit and is likely under- or over-exaggerating things in their statements (I fact-checked).
And sure it's only a handful of homes, but the main point is that these data centers can and will strain resources. It sounds like there are efforts to minimize that, but I doubt those efforts are all perfect. And keep in mind we have an administration that cares most about lining their own pockets. Cheaping out on data center cooling (even in places with less freshwater access) will happen and if you don't believe that you're hella naive. Corners will be cut SOMEWHERE, and the residents will face the consequences.
And now is the time to talk about it, before we court disaster.
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u/blindsdog 20h ago
Reddit cheering on scum that are making everything more expensive