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tw04today at 5:41 PM2 repliesview on HN

But it’s not just ideological. The facts are, even with great strides in efficiency, datacenters use a TON of water and electricity. And without fail that results in increased prices for the local communities who see almost no benefit from these datacenters.

Ironically the very same people profiting most off of them are the ones saying they’re going to leave the country if they’re forced to pay anything resembling a fair tax rate. They’re always all about socializing costs and privatizing profits and the common folks are finally waking up to it.


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jeffbeetoday at 5:43 PM

Data centers use very little water, right down to none if they want. And state-of-the-art hyperscale data centers really are operated by AIs.

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Our_Benefactorstoday at 5:44 PM

> datacenters use a TON of water and electricity

We have a shortage of neither.

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