r/technology • u/Miserable_Phase_2519 • 5d ago

Society One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center

https://www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-americas-last-chestnut-groves-is-about-to-be-destroyed-for-a-data-center
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u/t-mille 5d ago

They just HAVE to destroy fucking everything dont they. Millions of square miles of land in this country but no, they absolutely HAVE to build where a grove of near-extinct trees stand. Fuck these monsters.

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u/DisraeliEers 5d ago

It's because WV is District 12 and we constantly vote in ghouls to keep it that way.

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u/Southern-Mall-7707 5d ago

Lol. They literally tried to build in the middle of the desert and there was still complaining.

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u/p_bobcat 5d ago

Building notoriously water-hungry industrial sites in places famous for not having water ain't it either. It's almost like this concept of "carrying capacity" exists and exceeding that capacity causes Not Good Things to happen. So maybe we should try not exceeding that

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u/Southern-Mall-7707 5d ago

There is no evidence that data centers are actually "water-hungry".

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u/kmontreux 5d ago

exactly how flat do you think the earth is?

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u/Southern-Mall-7707 5d ago

Lol. Look if you want to believe nonsense that's your job. I believe actual research and you will not find one real study that shows that data centers are quote unquote water hungry. You will find sensationalist articles that somehow pretend that water disappears if it's used for cooling. But not one study that says the water is being actually removed from any existing flow.

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u/kmontreux 5d ago

oh wait are you actually serious?

I legitimately thought you were trolling because that was such an obviously incorrect thing considering the majority of data centers leverage evaporate cooling and there are literally hundreds of reputable and verified reports from a plethora or agencies that talk about it.

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u/Southern-Mall-7707 5d ago

Lol find one. 

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u/kmontreux 4d ago

Apparently you're too lazy to do the work of finding information? that's probably why you believe something so dumb.

here's one to get you started.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3724499

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u/Southern-Mall-7707 4d ago

I didn't say data centers don't use water. I disagree with your claim that they are "water hungry".  How does the article you picked prove that? It literally says Pepsi uses more water than data centers. Do you call Pepsi  water hungry? Paper uses double the water of data centers, is the paper industry water hungry?