Fuck Data Centers and anyone that supports this shit

There's a subgroup on Lemmy that will absolutely melt down if you mention data center water usage. And I can't help but think "The Water Hoax" rhetoric churning through the LessWrong community has played a major role.

However you square it, though, you can't help but consider something like this peculiar.

They also do that in the Netherlands. Shady fuckers. Burn them all.

Because it’s not a data center, it’s a superintelligence factory.

Hey, you need to update the post.

UPDATE: Improper redaction reveals Lincoln’s Google Data Center water and electricity usage

You can just select the text and it'll show you the peak electrical demand was 52.65 MW and the annual water consumption was 13.299 Mgal.

Then on the next page, you can see Use Tax Paid: 47,687,666 Sales Tax Paid: 8,134,806 and Expected Refund: 55,822,472.

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Vote local also. Maybe it can help.

So, just in Nebraska, Google data centers use roughly 3 billion liters / year.

Which, to put in perspective, is about 3 days of water use for the entire metropolis of greater Vancouver. (3.11 million people)

Our gov

[X] Doubt

However, using a computer cursor to highlight the redacted text box in the report to DWEE, then copying and pasting it into a separate document reveals that Agate LLC is reporting 52.65 megawatts of electricity during peak electrical demand and 13.299 megagallons of water between cooling towers, evaporative systems and site operations in the last year. That totals out to 13 million gallons of water.

For context, 13 million gallons is enough to fill around 20 Olympic-size swimming pools, and is less than half of what the City of Lincoln reports using on Sept. 29.

The sole fact that data on a company destroying the environment can be considered a trade secret is all you need to know.

Save this for all the people claiming that data centers don’t actually use that much water.