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Posted on 05/28/2026 1:53:00 PM PDT by Libloather
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stole the show at a recent congressional hearing with two jars of brown water.
Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) explained that the dirty water had come from Morgan County, Ga., where a Meta data center is allegedly tainting the water of local residents.
It was an image perfectly suited to driving the intensifying opposition to data centers in that it was photogenic, easy to understand — and misleading.
According to reporting in the New York Times last year, the water problem has affected four homes in the vicinity of the data center, not the entire county, as AOC implied.
It stands to reason that the construction of the data center disturbed the private wells of these homes (the problems started when Meta broke ground), but that could happen with any construction project.
As a gesture of goodwill, Meta should replace the wells.
But the PR damage has already been done.
The growing animus to data centers is as irrational as the campaign to stop nuclear power, which had considerable success, to our detriment, to this day.
At least nuclear power has had real accidents, although the one in the United States, Three Mile Island, was ultimately of trifling significance.
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RE: earth and water....
The real Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield) used to play in the dirty river bank of the Mississippi River and then would come in for dinner. His grandmother would shake her head and say “Okay, muddy water, you get washed up before dinner.” Called him “muddy” for a time.
The “s” was added later. 🎸
Photo....
Crew member: Sorry, but the photo op guy’s video camera had a glitch. I’m gonna have to ask you to go all the way back and walk down the same area, pretend to suddenly see the immigrants, burst into tears and hold for a few seconds.
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AI Overview
A large hyperscale data center consumes between 1 million and 5 million gallons of water daily for cooling, which is equivalent to the daily water usage of a town of 10,000 to 50,000 residents. However, the exact amount depends heavily on the facility's location, server technology, and cooling method
AI cites the Google Datacenter in Council Bluffs Iowa as consuming 2.8 million gallons per day, average.
Yeah, but those systems use DEIONIZED water. You know how they make that, how they get rid of ions? With dangerous IONIZING RADIATION. Or is it DEIONIZING RADIATION?
I confuse the two. In any event, you can’t be too careful with such things.
Glad to see that there is one post here on this thread where someone realizes that dirty water and increased energy usage are far from the biggest problem we face from data centers. AI and data centers are totally part of the same operation. AI will live in data centers along with every bit of information about us that can be gleamed and stored.
“ And the final stage heat exchangers likely use evaporation.”
Yes. Then the evaporated water returns to a liquid state and used again.
L
If you mix earth and water together you may get watery mud.
As they used to say about the Missouri river ...
Too thick to drink,
Too thin to plow.
Wow, that brings back some memories. Remember listening to that on the radio when it came out.
It was a bitchin song man!
Yes, it will fall as rain somewhere.
But unlikely to replenish its original source.
No it’s not deionized water.
You are SO wrong.
THE DATA CENTER PLANNED LOCALLY TO ME IN N NEVADA HIGH DESERT SAYS THEY NEED 20 ACRE FEET OF WATER FOR A “CLOSED LOOP’ COOLING SYSTEM.
THAT IS 6,517,020 GALLONS......6 MILLION ++++++++
THIS ENTIRE VALLEY LIVES ON PRIVATE WELLS WITH AN AQUIFER
DID ANY OF THEM NEED OVER 6 MILLION GALLONS OF WATER ANNUALLY???
THAT IS WHAT THE NEW LOCAL DATA CENTER IS REQUESTING
“What the F are they for?”
Did you post this message using a computer, connected to a computer server?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/05/28/data-centers-boom-virginians-breathe-exhaust-10000-diesel-generators/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter
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Pollution from generators at data centers could cause respiratory symptoms and deaths in the region, an analysis for The Washington Post found.
Data centers — warehouses stuffed with powerful computers — are spreading across the United States to support tech industry visions of a gleaming future powered by artificial intelligence. Most come bundled with polluting technology from last century: diesel backup generators the size of semitrucks that have made sporadic smoke plumes a fact of life for many in Virginia. The state is home to roughly a quarter of the nation’s data centers.
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The analyses illustrate how recent moves by the Trump administration and state regulators to encourage data center operators to fire up their generators more often could increase harmful pollution in the United States. Seven times this year, Energy Secretary Chris Wright issued orders authorizing power grid operators to direct data centers to run the generators to reduce strain on regional grids, which are struggling to accommodate surging demand from the tech industry.
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The most recent order authorized the sprawling PJM Interconnection grid that serves 13 states and the District of Columbia to direct data centers to start their many thousands of diesel generators to help bolster overstressed power infrastructure amid the latest heat wave. Industry executives have argued that using generators more often can protect the electric grid and keep important services powered by data centers operating smoothly for citizens and businesses.
Yes, and I’ve never needed a 62 square mile data center to post anything before.
What’s the big change now for?
Nobody can give an honest or clear answer.
Thanks for trying.
I skimmed the article and didn't see anything saying the Morgan County, Georgia data center was 62 square miles. A building 7.874 miles by 7.874 miles sounds unfeasibly large.
Is it actually that size? I ask because it sounds like something you just made up.
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