Comment on Stop the datacenters
rabber@lemmy.ca 1 week agoI mean, I’m someone who knows how it actually works, talking to a guy who thinks they know how it works.
I wish I could do that my man.
Can you elaborate on how my datacenter is polluting the water? We have not topped up the water cooling loop in six years.
Turret3857@infosec.pub 1 week ago
“it works this way at the one data center I work at so they must all work this way”
third grade level thinking.
www.sehn.org/…/data-centers-and-the-water-crisis
"Traditionally, data centers use evaporative cooling. This water is drawn from a groundwater aquifer or surface water source (lake, river, or stream). Water usage depends on both local climate conditions as well as the type of cooling system, but much of it rises as water vapor into the atmosphere, is carried away by prevailing winds, and becomes unavailable for reuse near its
rabber@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
If your homelab hosted every online resource you utilize, it would have a worse impact on the environment given it probably sits in a room temperature room and would therefore require more power than a room designed to be cold.
It seems like a drop in the bucket but if everyone hosted their own compute we would have serious environmental issues way before AI even existed.
You think people should be running a gigabit switch and dell poweredge for example in their own house?
Turret3857@infosec.pub 1 week ago
Why do they need all that when most things can be done on a simple arm SBC? Most “online resources” dont need to exist to begin with. We dont need 30,000,000 AI generated articles. We don’t need 7,000 different social media sites. We don’t need tracking cookies, advertising, or any other of the stupid bullshit that came with Web 2.0. We were doing fine before corpo shills ruined the internet. ActivityPub is a perfect example of how the internet SHOULD be. A single user instance costs almost nothing at all to host. If you remove the “profit incentive” the internet would be a lot more efficient.
rabber@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
I almost completely agree with you. But this is a capitalism problem and not a datacenter problem you do realize?
Datacenters existed and worked fine before the examples you mentioned existed.
The other problem is that users don’t know what they are doing, and that’s why datacenters are required…