It's a fun contrast to see how AI apologists kept saying that criticism of data center water use is overblown, while the actual water utility companies loudly point out that data centers are a problem to the water supply.
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It's a fun contrast to see how AI apologists kept saying that criticism of data center water use is overblown, while the actual water utility companies loudly point out that data centers are a problem to the water supply.
@hzulla come on, what do these "experts" know anyway, we must not be left behind! /s
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It's a fun contrast to see how AI apologists kept saying that criticism of data center water use is overblown, while the actual water utility companies loudly point out that data centers are a problem to the water supply.
if you bother to read the document in question
https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/164766/html/you learn two things:
The UK seems to be the worst NIMBY place on the planet, as no new resovoirs are being built
which leads to disasters, like the claim that a new cancer hospital can't be built due to a shortage of waterThe shortfall due to datacenters is a projection, that assumes the UK will treble DC capacity, and that on the hottest days there will be shortfall that is not that big a deal, if there was no NIMBYism
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