• xylol@leminal.space
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    1 day ago

    They building a new data center in the bay area California that is struggling for water all the time. But its OK they are building it upstream towards the reservoir so they can get first dibs

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        9 hours ago

        seawater would probably corrode whatever storage system they have in there overtime, all that biological material, chemicals and gunk.

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          23 hours ago

          I’d much rather have underwater data centers. A floating data center seems like a massive eyesore and you’d need to run cables out there.

          If you build one underground near the shore and then channel water in from the ocean, it should be much less intrusive.

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              23 hours ago

              Right, by “near the shore” I meant a land-based facility with access to sea water. Heated exhaust water could also be used in a local desalinization plant to produce fresh water for maximum efficiency.

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        23 hours ago

        It’s not like they’re dunking the electronics in the water. They just need to filter it enough it doesn’t clog up the system and run it in a closed loop.

        If I can have a closed loop with a reservoir for my home PC, motherfucking Amazon can build a water storage tank for their cooling.

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          22 hours ago

          But that would require large capital investments that negatively impacts earnings reports.

          Much better to screw over the people by taking their water for free.

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          23 hours ago

          Sure, but that means more space to allow for cooling the water so it can be reused. If you can cycle it w/ “unlimited” cool water from the ocean, it can be a lot more compact, and heated waste water could potentially be used by a desalinization plant to improve freshwater output.

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          22 hours ago

          Nuclear plants do that with lakes, they suck in cool water from one end and dump out there hot water at the other so that it can cool down by the time it circulates back in

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        21 hours ago

        Its an amazon data center in Gilroy, been in the works for a long time but they recently put up the development signs so I think now that they ran the new water lines a like a year ago they are ready to break ground

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          14 hours ago

          They don’t even have enough water for the garlic anymore, and that’s the crop equivalent of a fucking lizard :(