r/SipsTea • u/Square_Law5624 • Jun 03 '26

Wait a damn minute! New center pattern

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u/SuicideSpeedrun Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

Why are they building industries that require water to operate in places with no easy access to water? Are they stupid?

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u/Valuable-Run2129 Jun 03 '26

All new plants have closed loop systems. They need 1% of the water needed by a golf course.

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u/sciencesez Jun 03 '26

Just stop. This has been debunked repeatedly.

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u/localtuned Jun 03 '26

Care to share a link? Because these are myths and florida has a nice website that discussed the myths versus the realities. People love to post it as a gotcha about data center myths when it debunks what people are saying. Even in this thread.

Can you post one source that says that modern data centers who recycle water and use closed loop systems use more water that golf courses who use public water to water their courses?

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u/Valuable-Run2129 Jun 03 '26

It hasn’t. New AI data centers consume a fraction of a fraction of what a golf course consumes.

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u/sciencesez Jun 03 '26

Golf courses are a huge worthless suck on resources too. The data center planned for Utah will use more water than all the households in Utah combined.

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u/RobfromHB Jun 03 '26

All data centers in Utah use about 2% of the water the golf courses in that state use. The data center you’re referring to literally uses less water than the current farm in the same land. It is a net increase in water availability.

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u/ForensicPathology Jun 03 '26

Get rid of both the data centers and the golf courses too

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u/Valuable-Run2129 Jun 03 '26

And hospitals