Comment on Former chemical plant in North Wales, UK, could become AI data center
XLE@piefed.social 1 month agoDo you have any reason to believe the opposite?
Comment on Former chemical plant in North Wales, UK, could become AI data center
XLE@piefed.social 1 month agoDo you have any reason to believe the opposite?
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
The air quality in Tennessee would disagree with you about datacenter waste products…
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Well, tell it that if it could post here it could explain it’s position.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Hi, I’m smog, from down in good ol’ Memphis TN. If like to share with you some exciting developments!
First, Elon was gracious enough to put my data center in the backyards of black people. You know, because white people don’t want their air and water to get wrecked nor their power bills to shoot up exponentially because we’re stealing it all up. It just makes good business sense to target people who are already suffering.
Want me to do you one even more funny? The lack of power is a real problem because these centers are so unbelievably insatiable. But did Musk get upset? No! He’s just did what any brilliant rich person would do! He installed the most incredible giant gas turbines without consulting anyone first!
And water? Not a problem! Modern models only take hundreds of thousands of gallons to train and operate. Good thing there aren’t any scarcity issues!
Yup, I’m here all warm and cozy raising an entire city district’s (did I mention minorities?!) smog levels by about 50%! And, man, the sublime noise pollution!
There is literally no one to stop is because any problems encountered can be alleviated immediately by decisions that poison the locals!