The boom is set to produce enough greenhouse gases to cancel out 15 years of declines in power-sector emissions, according to a Sierra Club analysis.

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[–] [S] 1 point 1 week ago (1 child)

Water that salty is corrosive. You can't just use it for datacenter cooling (or running a power plant) without removing the salt at considerable cost. It's cheaper to bribe politicians to transfer fresh water into their use than it is to desalinate that and use it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    Water that salty is corrosive. You can’t just use it for datacenter cooling (or running a power plant) without removing the salt at considerable cost.

    Using traditional systems designed for fresh water sure, but there are methods to using high saline water already. Here's the science . It also likely won't surprise you to learn that the nations in the Middle East already has high saline evaporation cooling deployed in industrial applications for years now.

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