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HDThoreaun an hour ago

Farming consumes more water than datacenters. Infrasound is pseudoscience. The biggest issue imo is that they use a ton of electricity and this country has forgotten how to expand electricity supply so prices go up. The solution to that is to create more electricity though, not ban datacenters

Shalomboy 20 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

> Farming consumes more water than datacenters.

But you don't see center-pivot or linear-movement farmland built up in areas with high population density, nor do you see them using the municipal, potable water supply for irrigation. That is where datacenters are being built and what datacenters are doing, however, and it is why datacenters are blamed for the exacerbation of municipal water systems in these communities. Groundwater, surface water, harvested rainwater, and reclaimed wastewater are the major sources used by farms. Dasani is the major source of water for datacenters, and it makes a massive difference on the water use math.

nemomarx an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Make the companies constructing a DC pay a bond or whatever for the new power plant, and don't give them tax subsidies. Easy enough?

grocery_stores 42 minutes ago | parent [-]

The companies building data centers have made it clear they're willing to pay to build out the grid. The problem isn't money, it's bureaucracy.