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Datacenter & AI water use is overblown
This keeps coming up over and over; for those interfacing with the anti-AI / anti-DC crowd, this article has some good talking points, about water, but also jobs and power. Data centers certainly do use water. They are basically warehouses of tightly packed, high-powered computers, and when computers run, they get hot. Most data centers—though not all—use water for cooling. But many of them use a “ closed loop ,” which doesn’t actually waste much, because the water is recycled repeatedly for...
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