| ▲ | monero-xmr 3 days ago |
| Also the water doesn’t disappear from the universe. It either evaporates or is pumped back out. People who lose their minds over water have been saying for 50 years we were about to enter a desert world |
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| ▲ | rini17 3 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Clean water does disappear. Not from universe bit from places you need it most. That there's plenty of it in the air or sea or Saturn rings, is little consolation. |
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| ▲ | scarab92 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | These fabs don’t evaporate the water though, they use it as process water, and then treat it to wastewater standards before discharging to the municipal wastewater system. Assuming the municipality recycles their wastewater, which they would do in any drought prone region, this water will become clean water again. It’s essentially a closed system. | | |
| ▲ | pfaphotoresist 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | > then treat it to wastewater standards before discharging to the municipal wastewater system. Are there PFAS chemicals in the semiconductor photoresist and then in the water? Do municipal wastewater standards require removal of PFAS? Similarly, they're all okay with dumping water used to wash out coal plants into the rivers: https://www.google.com/search?q=trump+10%25+coal+plant+wash+... | |
| ▲ | rini17 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | > It’s essentially a closed system. Source? Especially the claim that they are using external municipal wastewater treatment seems highly implausible, they are using nasty chemicals. | | |
| ▲ | oceanhaiyang 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | I read they either dump it into a local river while monitoring it or back to water treatment plant. Some datacenters have started reusing water but for some reason using it more than once is not appealing. Definitely the biggest problem is it’s not always a closed system and dumping it into a river potentially damages the river and makes the area lose their water. A percentage of the water is also lost via evaporation. Source: https://dgtlinfra.com/data-center-water-usage/ | | | |
| ▲ | corranh 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | It’s definitely not a closed system unless the water from the waste water treatment plant is pumped back upstream of the source of the municipal water which is not how most of these work. |
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| ▲ | ugh123 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | guy has never seen 'Waterworld' |
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| ▲ | tossandthrow 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| You should definitely bring this attitude into the housing affordability discussion - remind people that they indeed can find cheap housing in rural Africa. |
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| ▲ | ta20240528 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The Aral Sea says otherwise. |
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| ▲ | IshKebab 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Do you really think that that's what the authors were thinking? You can't accuse people of not using their brains when you haven't engaged yours. Also you seem to be unaware of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overdrafting |
