Comment by simianwords
14 hours ago
> Sucking 30% of the water from the town's water system without paying for it and reducing everyone's water pressure is not a way to make friends.
Huh? What's this one? Which data centre sucks 30% of water?
14 hours ago
> Sucking 30% of the water from the town's water system without paying for it and reducing everyone's water pressure is not a way to make friends.
Huh? What's this one? Which data centre sucks 30% of water?
This one
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/data-center-used...
Not only that, while the closed-loop water-cooling systems are indeed a good idea, they do NOT solve the problem of water consumption during the years of construction, which is exactly the problem in this instance to which I was referring.
Where did you get the 30% figure? I think this was a mistake - it was 30 million gallons which is <1% of the county's water usage.
It may well have been an error, good catch. In any case, whatever the amount, it was a large enough quantity pulled — unpaid — to cause the pressure in the entire system to drop, and drop enough that everyone noticed, complained, and set off the protests.
And, this is NOT the data center cooling usage, this is during construction, which is expected to last ~5 years.
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