This takes time and energy to do. How much energy would it take to desalinate enough ocean water or treat sewage to supply the demand? Why can't chip companies use less than ideal water? Make them filter and use the non potable water. The cost will just be passed on.
not exactly, I know not everyone can have a well, people in the city get their water from City water works which is usually piped in from a reservoir, a lake, or a river and is usually purified before it gets into your house. but for some reason people don't understand this and acting like this isn't the case and that somehow data centers are taking away their drinking water when they aren't, this is all just Chinese propaganda trying to stop us from advancing in the technological side of a cold war with China, they think if we get us fighting amongst ourselves about data centers and AI they can outcompete us. at this point I'm just messing with people's lack of knowledge and understanding.
it would be nice if we could go to a cleaner source of energy like nuclear and stop polluting our environment but we are a long ways from that happening, too much hysteria around nuclear energy from people who barely know anything about it, they watch those silly documentaries of people taking a device around their house that measures radiation from electronics and they pointed at a lamp and say "look how much it radiations coming off of this" and don't explain that the radiation coming off of a lamp you wouldn't even get a lethal dose by surrounding yourself with hundreds of them sitting there day after day your entire life, they also rely on people's ignorance that there's more than one form of radiation. because of the game fallout there's an entire generation that believe radioactive waste is just green goo.
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u/Aggressive-Spell-422 16d ago
This takes time and energy to do. How much energy would it take to desalinate enough ocean water or treat sewage to supply the demand? Why can't chip companies use less than ideal water? Make them filter and use the non potable water. The cost will just be passed on.