Date: November 5th, 2026 1:15 PM Author: The Penis
It's absurd. Everything "uses water". And it is just recycled back into the hydrological cycle anyway. Oh noes, a tiny percent the water will end up in precipitation 100s of miles away! What a travesty!
Date: November 5th, 2026 1:27 PM Author: The Penis
yeah but they are also voluntarily sending a lot of it over to meta and google without actually doing anything to minimize that. the physical data centers have nothing to do with it. it's a software governance problem on the corporate side and a digital hygiene problem on the personal side
Date: November 5th, 2026 1:24 PM Author: The Penis
yeah it's all from social media content and mostly driven by more recent ai anxieties. there have always been people who were environmentally conscious about data centers to an extent, especially in europe. infomaniak in switzerland's entire business model is on providing cloud compute at minimal energy use and being transparent about pollution and privacy. I can respect that. minimizing pollution is a noble pursuit. its when people specifically target data centers because of "ai" and start citing all of these insane reasons out of proportion to what computers actually do. most factories are way worse. people need to come correct and be honest about the effects. you can't just say we need to ban them all because they "use water". your punching from a lower weight class at that point. thats the difference.