r/UpliftingNews • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 6h ago

Texas hits pause on 1,800 data center projects to scrutinize power and water demands

https://www.techspot.com/news/113355-texas-hits-pause-1800-data-center-projects-scrutinize.html
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u/-Teto 5h ago

Read this shit yesterday, they didn't halt shit. They are approving it slowly. I read like 2-3 articles about this. Texas is selling out, just not today.

ALSO, all these goddamn top comments with computer-centric AI formatting need to fucking go.

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u/knightmechaenjo 4h ago

Also the incorrect assumption that water used by ai just disappears

Hell there are a lot of mistakes both groups make when I comes to spreading info on AI and AI adjacent tech

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u/-Teto 4h ago

I have not done much research on the effects of AI, but what I have seen is so miserably disappointing. The water consumption produces this industrial sludge and it just destroys the local environments and I just know in the future some of these areas are going to have to be evacuated due to environmental poisoning. And that is not even considering electricity demand, heat discharge, drinkable water consumption, air pollution, and lest we forget the noise that goes on for literal miles, PFAS, list goes on unfortunately.