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Consoom Paperless Office (media.scored.co)
posted 23 hours ago by USSDefiantJazz on scored.co (+0 / -0 / +60Score on mirror )
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Dfalt on scored.co
20 hours ago 0 points (+0 / -0 ) 2 children
Even with nuclear, data centers require MASSIVE amounts of water for cooling
CaptainTrouble on scored.co
20 hours ago 7 points (+0 / -0 / +7Score on mirror ) 1 child
You may have been misled. They hardly use any, actually.

xAI at its peak consumption is expected to use about 3B gallons of water per year.

The USA withdraws about 120T gallons of water per year. Thus, the data center utilizes about 0.0025% of total water withdrawals per year.

It's peanuts.

These data centers are not using too much water. That's all noise from radical groups who are being misled. It's this generation's new "climate change". It's false.

Stop falling for being radicalized against progress.
nikolaivsevolod on scored.co
18 hours ago 2 points (+0 / -0 / +2Score on mirror ) 1 child
I heard the electrons gotta drink water so they don't turn to positrons inside the flux capacitors which contain the data bits.

It's a scary thought, since positrons are anti-matter, which annihilates when it meets regular matter, so in effect these data centers are literally ticking time bombs.
CaptainTrouble on scored.co
18 hours ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror ) 1 child
Yup, that's about the extent of the knowledge from everyone who is freaking out about data centers.

They're really using the energy to summon Satan and break free of his chains so we can enter the little season... Or something like that.
bobbacringo on scored.co
16 hours ago 0 points (+0 / -0 ) 1 child
So you are confirming that the datacenters will be used to summon Satan. Will this affect my ability to play vidya?
CaptainTrouble on scored.co
16 hours ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror ) 1 child
No, you'll be fine. Go back to sleep.
EternalJew on scored.co
6 hours ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )
They don’t and even if they did the water is recycled. It’s just used for cooling, it isn't used or split in its constituent atoms
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