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Ashtear@piefed.social 1 week agoIt’s also going to get more efficient, like Amazon’s data centers have been over time. By the way, where was this zeal over water usage from people back when AWS and other data centers started popping up all over the place?
The water issue will end up being more in how local water tables are affected, not overall consumption.
alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Yeah but when but gets 20% more efficient they build a second one. You still end up with a net increase.