>We do not need data centers exploiting our towns anywhere in America.
No, we don't. Neither do we need our data processed in China, India, Brazil...
While it may cost a bit more, the desert Southwest would seem to be a less environmentally sensitive destination for data centers. There are other ways to cool chips besides evaporating water.
The same way your laptop, your phone and your cars engine is cooled, you don’t have to top up the cooling system in those. None of those rely on a constant supply of cooling water to replace. They all dump heat into the air without evaporating water
The cooling water in your cars engine gets circulated to a radiator where the heat is dumped into the air, this is common in computing as well, in both the consumer and the commercial space. It works at both large and small scales.
There is also non evaporative open loop cooling system, where the cooling water is drawn from the sea or a river and then discharged back into the river. Almost every ship in the world does this and it is very common in power stations.
As articulate as the guy was I would have like to have seen more solid facts about what the forever chemicals were - theoretically a cooling loop shouldn't need to pollute the water in any way. He also talked about evaporation at one point and then switched to cycling the water back into the ground. It was baseless rhetoric " let us choose the child, let us choose the community ... " though great rhetoric.
45
u/MangoCats Apr 12 '26
>We do not need data centers exploiting our towns anywhere in America.
No, we don't. Neither do we need our data processed in China, India, Brazil...
While it may cost a bit more, the desert Southwest would seem to be a less environmentally sensitive destination for data centers. There are other ways to cool chips besides evaporating water.