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Comment on Tucson City Council votes 7-0, unanimously to kill AI Data Center
xylol@leminal.space 1 day agoThey building a new data center in the bay area California that is struggling for water all the time. But its OK they are building it upstream towards the reservoir so they can get first dibs
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
xylol@leminal.space 21 hours ago
Its an amazon data center in Gilroy, been in the works for a long time but they recently put up the development signs so I think now that they ran the new water lines a like a year ago they are ready to break ground
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
They don’t even have enough water for the garlic anymore, and that’s the crop equivalent of a fucking lizard :(
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I wonder if they could use sea water for that. I know salt is corrosive, but surely there’s a reasonable solution there.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 9 hours ago
seawater would probably corrode whatever storage system they have in there overtime, all that biological material, chemicals and gunk.
SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I remember there was talks about a floating data center in the ocean.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I’d much rather have underwater data centers. A floating data center seems like a massive eyesore and you’d need to run cables out there.
If you build one underground near the shore and then channel water in from the ocean, it should be much less intrusive.
SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It still has problems. Mainly you need to get power out there and the heated exhaust water can mess with the ecosystem.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
It’s not like they’re dunking the electronics in the water. They just need to filter it enough it doesn’t clog up the system and run it in a closed loop.
If I can have a closed loop with a reservoir for my home PC, motherfucking Amazon can build a water storage tank for their cooling.
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
But that would require large capital investments that negatively impacts earnings reports.
Much better to screw over the people by taking their water for free.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
Sure, but that means more space to allow for cooling the water so it can be reused. If you can cycle it w/ “unlimited” cool water from the ocean, it can be a lot more compact, and heated waste water could potentially be used by a desalinization plant to improve freshwater output.
xylol@leminal.space 22 hours ago
Nuclear plants do that with lakes, they suck in cool water from one end and dump out there hot water at the other so that it can cool down by the time it circulates back in