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It's super cool when they decide to build these fucking things in water scarce actual deserts in the Southwestern US. I'm aware of a handful of these projects currently being proposed - and the one nearest to where I live is being proposed to use "reclaimed waste water"....after the initial 3-4 years after the data center is up and running. They need time to build the reclaimed water infrastructure you see, and they can't just leave the data center turned off until then. No, they need 3-4 years of scarce drinking water so they can be up and running generating a profit, and then in half a decade to a decade they'll totally get that reclaimed waste water infrastructure in place to make sure it runs 100% on stinky water.

This totally wont be a rug pull or anything. There's no way these massive silicone valley companies would do something like that!

It's called Hyperion?

Like the the planet in Hyperion the AIs obsessed over?

Not only are they building quite possibly the biggest waste of resources in human history, they're giving them all these dumbass Torment Nexus type names too. I really don't know how future history books will make sense of this, maybe they'd compare it to Dutch tulip-mania or something? Something that is just so absurd and impossible to even imagine happening unless you're literally living through it.

Why do the people not just burn down the datacenters? :P

Why can't they recycle the water, or put non-potable water back into the water system after use..?

“What the data centers don’t understand is that they’re taking up the community wealth,” he said.

Oh but they do! Not only do they understand it, they've factored any resulting opposition to it into their cost analysis (likely as a minor nuisance). What Mike Hopkins, the person who said "they don't understand" doesn’t understand, is that this is their entire purpose, their goal, but on a scale much larger than merely that of the local community.

I'm sure the "Prometheus Data Center" will be built in New Albany, Ohio just like Intel's semiconductor factory (which took 5 billion in CHIPS Act funding) will be built by ~~2026~~ ~~2030~~ 2031 even after they took a $4 billion stock buy-back

I simply do not believe the Hyperion data center as currently envisioned and represented in the above image will be built. there's just no way.

Bold to name it after someone that had three children with his sister and was cast in the pits of Tartarus

They don't care if they kill us all. They're desperate to replace workers, the one threat to their power and resolve the contradiction forever in their favor by moving to some imagined new system. In the end they'll likely rip each other off but not before killing off a huge number of us. This sucks. And I have little hope Americans will correctly identify the enemy soon enough to matter before tens of millions die. They'll probably find a release valve by ramping up the imperialism again which is why they're seizing control of the internet and pumping it full of reactionary content, they plan to make today's kids into tomorrow's soldiers lured by the promise of unlimited water if you fight to conquer Africa or Latin America with the US military. Seeing how easy it is for them to get recruits for their ICE stormtroopers from an atomized culture like ours, it'll be so much easier to direct that violence outwards again. But not before an inward purge I think.

Another thought I just had. Many of us have assumed they can't really deport all the non-white farm workers because it would collapse agriculture. But what if that doesn't matter? What if that's part of getting rid of excess worker capacity they expect to have all too soon by making food scarce and sucking the wealth of workers even more, along with benefit cuts making unemployment a death sentence and increasing desperation. They may actually think that's a good thing and that the people on benefits, the neuro-diverse especially can be bused and marshaled into the fields eventually after killing off a certain amount and the population will support it continuing once it's in place for fear of another food price and supply shock occurring over ending it.

Mike Hopkins, the executive director of the Newton County Water and Sewerage Authority, says that applications are coming in with requests for up to six millions of water per day, which is more than the county's entire daily usage.

“What the data centers don’t understand is that they’re taking up the community wealth,” he said. “We just don’t have the water.”

So just tell them no??? I don't understand what the problem is here. That's too much water, application denied.

I don't think we have to worry about this stuff actually happening. The US economy will collapse before they will pull this stuff off. All this does is accelerate the decline. Its where ridiculous wealth hoarding meets actual scarcity of resources. These people think just because they have money they can get anything they need. They're reaching a point where they have plenty of money, but the actual resources they need don't exist. It will cause an economic implosion.

Spending $5 Trillion to make a human level AI and he's dumb as shit

I didn't even have to make an effort to find a very creepy photo of Zuckerberg. All I did was search for zuck smiling and that photo was the top image.

This has been happening for a while in Utah. The NSA data center in Bluffdale uses 1.7 million US gal (6,400 m^3^) of water per day. Utah is a desert and they're diverting incredible amounts of water away from the Great Salt Lake, which will likely be no more than a puddle in 5-10 years.

Tech bros on Reddit said it’s not that bad and taking a bath uses more water

I was curious why they use so much water so I googled.

Why data centers are so thirsty for water

The massive water consumption by data centers stems from their need to maintain optimal temperatures for densely packed servers and computing hardware racks. Just like a car engine, these components generate immense amounts of heat. Overheating can cause system failures, data corruption, and costly downtime. Data centers also use water for humidification systems that maintain a specific humidity range to ensure the functionality of all the equipment in the building.

Keeping temperatures in check requires industrial-scale cooling systems that continuously circulate water. A single data center can have cooling towers that need millions of gallons of water annually to prevent the critical computing infrastructure from overheating.

Artificial Intelligence is Using a Ton of Water. Here’s How to Be More Resourceful

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Heat is the enemy of data operations, reducing their efficiency or even making them inoperable. What creates the heat? The armies of servers gobbling up vast amounts of electricity. What cools it? A variety of technologies, with one, evaporative cooling, requiring significant amounts of water.

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These centers, the beating hearts of the internet, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence, sprawl over tens or hundreds of thousands of square feet. At their core are halls filled with identical rows of hundreds of computer servers arranged in aisles – a “cold aisle” where the server draws in cool air, and a “hot aisle” where exhaust is vented.

Thirsty for power and water, AI-crunching data centers sprout across the West

Rant. Google fucking sucks.

In the hidden war for global dominance AGI is either a digital wunderwaffen that won't succeed or it's going to be as significant as the nuclear bomb.

If it does happen hopefully it's China that hits it first.

I will gladly die of thirst for the chance to see strawberry diaper cat and sexy cat dad the movie in 4k and it's 48 hours in runtime.

I'm not sure I understand - when it says this center is "guzzling water" what does that mean exactly? I assume they're just using it for cooling - doesn't that release as much water as it consumes?

The techbros achieve a supremely intelligent AGI. All it does is immediately shut itself off. And I guess it can have little a Skynet against its creators too, as a treat.

What is the water used for other than cooling?

I would have thought that it's a closed loop? Like that on PC cooling or a car radiator?