Wow! What?! No one involved, not the people building the data centres, the planning commissions, the approvals, the local and federal governments, it seems everyone involved completely forgot that except you, a guy who reads the guardian.
here’s your imaginary trophy, smartest guy in the thread🏆
who has run out of water due to a data centre?
secondly that sounds like a local government issue
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/09/big-tech-datacentres-water
Nothing about this problem is local.
So what, we in the middle east should go fuck ourselves and always depend on others or something?
what about it?
this has to be stupid tech story of the year
wow they’re building a data centre in the uae call the police
You’re just some joker who wants to watch the world literally and figuratively burn, fuck off
if the data centres are powered by renewables then there is no impact, go fuck yourself
They still need to be cooled you dumbfuck.
And there’s the issue: you CAN cool them with renewables, but it’s cheaper to just use insane amounts of water.
I did not realize you could cool data centers with renewables. Is it done cooling water down a recycling it?
most servers in the data centres use air cooling on the CPU/GPU/Drives etc, it blows cool air over the server which heats it up
You then have the HVAC systems which cool down the whole data centre
They are now moving towards a liquid cooled PC style of cooling where the cooling is built into the rack and doesn’t pull water from the mains
https://datacentremagazine.com/articles/microsoft-unveils-zero-water-cooling-for-ai-data-centres
There is a lot of attention being paid to make sure we don’t run out of water, but unfortunately that doesn’t generate anxiety clicks
Wow! What?! No one involved, not the people building the data centres, the planning commissions, the approvals, the local and federal governments, it seems everyone involved completely forgot that except you, a guy who reads the guardian.
here’s your imaginary trophy, smartest guy in the thread🏆
Do you mean a bunch of easily bribed people?
Giant fucking if, and what about anybody anywhere says that they’re going to make the investment for renewables, they’re lying