Anything built by the big boys, Meta, Google, Microsoft, etc. will use closed loop cooling designs with dry coolers. They will use about as much water as a golf course for 2 months when they start up and fill their systems. A full system flush later on is also a rare event. Then they pay the electric utility to build them dedicated power plants.
If utility bills go up after a DC it’s because your utilities and government are corrupt and refuse to use the hundreds of millions of dollars they receive to upgrade their systems.
Thanks, ProCon!
Fact: major tech companies are spending millions on lobbying, Super PACs, and targeted ad campaigns to counter the growing local and national backlash against data centers.
China is trying to block our data centers. I suspect that some of the anti-data center posts on these threads are from people working with the Chinese. For example on one of my posts on this topic, someone popped up to say that his electric bill had gone up 17% because of data centers. I asked what state they were in. No answer.
Build them next to the tech CEO’s house
I am a Project. Manager for data center construction. It’s all about power resources. Now it’s triple the amps needed vs 10 years ago.
COLOSSUS V.2
Funny how this article never mentions crypto-mining.
The one thing that humans never need to worry about... Is water.
We are literally swimming in it... 71% of our planet’s surface is covered in water, most of it salty... But with desalination we could use all of it... That being said, only 3% of our water is actually drinkable... And we’ve been drinking that 3% for the last several million years... And it’s still stands at 3%... But just in case... There is always the ability to desalinate that other 68% that currently isn’t drinkable.
In the end... We are never going to run out of water. Period!
“Hospitals rely on data centers for real-time access to electronic health records; banks use them to process millions of secure transactions per second; and manufacturing plants deploy them to power smart assembly lines.”
That sort of stuff was done before data centers became a thing.
This report is false in many wsys.
It also does not address the serious issue of how these developers go in and get the local vounty, etc...to declare eminent domain, or shell vompanies offer low ball buy outs to take land and homes from unsuspecting people .
Its disgusting
That sort of computing power is in my opinion only needed for processing images.
The price and shortage of SD image cards suggested they are being gobbled up by Big Tech.
I just taped over the camera on my Windows PC and the cameras on my cellphone.
Agenda driven.
Everyone was just fine when all your stuff was in “the cloud”. Harmless, fluffy clouds. How innocent.
Change the name to “Data Center” and stoke fear.
Rinse, repeat.
No, this claim is outdated and ignores modern technological innovation.
Sounds like the meaning of oxymoron.
That will silence about 70% of the problems people have with data centers and it will solve a major problem we have which is we are not generating enough electricity.
Is there something wrong with paper?
The environmental lobby is doing the PRC’s bidding citing BS about their impact on the environment. What they’re afraid of is the fact that DCs can’t run on magical renewables so it means more fossil fuel generation.
The Goldwater Institute could not find even a single negative? No credibility.
“What is your opinion?”
AI is a fraud and data centers should not be permitted.
When will we reach Peak Data Center ?