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minus-squareArthur Besse@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·edit-24 months ago Fuck I hate it when anything uses “water consumed” as a bad thing. […] This water is not lost in any way, it’s just warmed up and evaporated. Which then falls as rain again. oh, wow, yeah, evaporated water does fall again as rain 🤔 why didn’t anyone think of this before? so many wars could have been avoided! finally, a hydrology understander has logged on to explain why water usage isn’t even a problem. thank you for clearing this up! seriously though https://www.datacenters.com/news/california-data-centers-under-pressure-to-reduce-water-usage https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-environment-and-nature-oregon-united-states-2385c62f1a87030d344261ef9c76ccda https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2022/12/googles-water-use-is-soaring-in-the-dalles-records-show-with-two-more-data-centers-to-come.html https://www.datacenterfrontier.com/special-reports/article/11428474/tackling-data-center-water-usage-challenges-amid-historic-droughts-wildfires https://www.npr.org/2022/08/30/1119938708/data-centers-backbone-of-the-digital-economy-face-water-scarcity-and-climate-ris https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/04/how_datacenters_use_water/
minus-squareBlameThePeacock@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoDid you even read the second part of my comment before getting mad?
oh, wow, yeah, evaporated water does fall again as rain 🤔
why didn’t anyone think of this before? so many wars could have been avoided!
finally, a hydrology understander has logged on to explain why water usage isn’t even a problem. thank you for clearing this up!
seriously though
https://www.datacenters.com/news/california-data-centers-under-pressure-to-reduce-water-usage
https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-environment-and-nature-oregon-united-states-2385c62f1a87030d344261ef9c76ccda
https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2022/12/googles-water-use-is-soaring-in-the-dalles-records-show-with-two-more-data-centers-to-come.html
https://www.datacenterfrontier.com/special-reports/article/11428474/tackling-data-center-water-usage-challenges-amid-historic-droughts-wildfires
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/30/1119938708/data-centers-backbone-of-the-digital-economy-face-water-scarcity-and-climate-ris
https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/04/how_datacenters_use_water/
Did you even read the second part of my comment before getting mad?