I am all for the UK’s Digital Sovereignty. But a chemical plant!?
Comment on Former chemical plant in North Wales, UK, could become AI data center
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s hard to argue that a datacenter has more environmental impact than a chemical plant, but I look forward to reading the comments that try.
This looks like this is part of the UK’s Digital Sovereignty plans, so they have their companies data on their land and legal jurisdiction
tonytins@pawb.social 1 day ago
XLE@piefed.social 12 hours ago
Do you have any reason to believe the opposite?
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
That a datacenter causes less environmental impact than a chemical plant? I have a lot of reasons to believe that.
The primary one being that the primary waste product for datacenters is water vapor while this chemical plant used extracted bromine from seawater using chlorine oxidation and produced a huge amount of chemical waste including water contaminated by chlorine and bromine.
In a disaster, a damaged datacenter will turn off while a damaged chemical plant will leak toxic and deadly chemicals into the local area.
XLE@piefed.social 7 hours ago
The air quality in Tennessee would disagree with you about datacenter waste products…
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Well, tell it that if it could post here it could explain it’s position.