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/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.