Funny how all the people in my rural community are against wind and solar farms being built in the surrounding counties, but cry about how AEP keeps jacking up energy bills amid rising oil, coal, and gas prices.
Woke energy.🙄 It should be criminal to make sustainable energy a partisan issue.
They made a virus a partisan issue. Are you really that surprised?
I live on the edge of town and have some swamp out in the sticks. We're going balls out on solar.
Don't forget that large data centers also use lots of water for cooling. Maybe if all this data that's harvested off of users is deleted we can save power and water
They use water for cooling, but do not consume water for cooling. Yes, they'll use water as a heat conductor medium so it goes to where it can be cooled and sent back, but it's a loop.
You may find the actual usage to be quite low.
Data centers use evaporative cooling which has the water turn to steam. The steam can recondense and be sent back into the system, but a non-negligible amount is lost to the environment. This is why recently Chile partially reversed Google's permit for a new data center
they are very secretive about it, which means its probably a lot.
Interesting, what do you think they turn the water into?
maybe a lot of evaporation.
or the temperature difference might be bad in some way to the surroundings.
the secrecy is what makes me suspicious
I'm wondering if there are losses of water. Like leaks etc. If it's a really large amount of water even a small percentage could be a lot. I'm really just spit balling here though really. I think that's a pretty efficient use of water actually. The thermal conductivity is high compared to air and any cooling techniques which don't include AC are surely better overall.
A water leak would either ruin the equipment if indoors or ruin the equipment if outdoors and not refilled on time. Considering those servers are their bread and butter, I'm going to assume they're going to fix any leaks pretty quickly.
There's lots of places these systems can leak that aren't a big deal. They almost definitely leak to some degree. They also likely leak less than the municipal water supply does.
When I tried hitting that link, through the image, I got a screen demanding payment.
Apparently finance.yahoo.com is making mobile-users land on a money-harvesting page, tied with Google?
Does the entire fediverse need to blacklist finance.yahoo.com ?
First of all yahoo finance is a money-harvesting page itself. And secondly I as a mobile user can read the article just fine.
You think yahoo can afford it's chatgp3 subscription to write these articles without a pay wall
If you have problems with paywalls, use the mobile web browser Brave and go into settings and enable Bypass Paywalls Clean.
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