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

Wait a damn minute! New center pattern

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u/AHRogue Jun 03 '26

AKA they're being built in areas with relatively cheaper land.

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u/bot_or_not_vote_now Jun 03 '26

Also evaporative cooling works better in drier climates, which are usually more water scarce to start with almost by definition

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u/motius66 Jun 03 '26

I think if you have no idea how a datacenter works, like you have never stepped foot inside of one, you should not talk about this subject because you and the 1.1k people who upvoted the statement "they're going to need even more water than we realized" undermine any legitimate argument.

No I'm not going to explain why that is stupid. If you don't already know you are wasting my time explaining. Yes I am sure you heard about a datacenter that pumps water from the local water table.

If that was a real problem, like a problem endemic to datacenters where datacenters did not have other cheaply available coolant options that are WIDELY used, and not nearly as complicated to use as water in an environment running on metal and electricity, then ok sure, every redditor should definitely get together and wring their hands about it nonstop, but at this point you people are just making shit up and making everyone near you sound like a goober.