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sevenzerotoday at 10:22 AM2 repliesview on HN

Misconception of the year. If you can guarantee the steam it produces rains down in areas that actually re-join the water cycle easily, you might be right (even though you still have to cover the just in time demand). You can not guarantee that though.

Best regards, European person where lakes dry out atm.


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perks_12today at 10:37 AM

They are not drying up because of AI datacenters and especially not because of European datacenters.

While man-made climate change is undoubtedly real, the yearly "our lakes dry up"-media cycle is not proof of it at all. Check if the return to normal in November will make the news.

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boxedtoday at 10:34 AM

I think you mean "re-join the FRESHWATER cycle"? Because obviously it rejoins the global water cycle.