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fc417fc802yesterday at 9:22 PM1 replyview on HN

They get their own unique third category as unlike industrial sites there's no hazardous chemicals and even the noise pollution is substantially different in nature.

The old datacenters are analogous to office buildings that emit some unusual noise and consume large amounts of electricity.

The new ones (ie gigawatt class) consume enough electricity for ~1 million households and at minimum enough water for 100k households (but possibly many times that).


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bombcaryesterday at 9:59 PM

Where does the water go afterwards? Is it evaporated? Sewer?

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