The neighbors of a data center in Georgia are steaming after they discovered the facility had sucked up nearly 30 million gallons of water — without initially paying for it.

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[–] 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Le sigh.

Large data centers can consume up to 5 million gallons per day, equivalent to the water use of a town populated by 10,000 to 50,000 people. -source

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  • [+] -22 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Sorry we're all so much stupider than you and that no other systems exist to cool datacenters than the one you happen to have read about that time.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago

    Oh so you are just doing propaganda while being a smug prick. Correct. You are much stupider. Just because technologies EXIST doesn't mean they are widely in use. Its obvious you're pushing an agenda, one that will poison drinking water for humans, so I'm guessing you're just a bot

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