alt Hacker NewsOne reason is that politicians have vilified them for their own political means. Creating false narratives like they use huge amounts of water, when in fact the cooling is a closed loop system and use less water than a single busy restaurant. They are being used as yet another pawn piece to push inequity and climate change agendas. It’s been quite a successful strategy.
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cute_boi • today at 5:57 PM
Data Center, right now, have more negative impact. So, lets not dismiss that.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/13/elon-mus...
homeonthemtn • today at 5:48 PM
So successful that data centers are everywhere? I'm not following the logic here.
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> Creating false narratives like they use huge amounts of water, when in fact the cooling is a closed loop system and use less water than a single busy restaurant
My understanding was that often multiple cooling methods are employed and the ratio of use shifts seasonally; however, that evaporative cooling was still primary method, especially in hotter climates like CA and AZ.
Can you help me understand what type of data center (size, location, etc) uses less water than a busy restaurant?