Comment on When it comes to total water use, AI data centers are a drop in the bucket

Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I didn’t post because I think all is fine and dandy, but what I’m gathering is the issue is local moreso than aggregate. People are up in arms in Temple over planned bit barns.

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  • Quexotic@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Wait… are they trying to rebrand datacenters as… Bit Barns?

    I get that they think rural people are dumb, but that’s pretty insulting.

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    • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Nah, that’s just the term The Register uses derisively.

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      • Quexotic@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Total rag, that, and you can’t even use it for toilet-paper, unless you’re creatively un-hygenic!

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• BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  So does every city, suburb, town, factory, mine, processing plant, farm, etc.

  That’s hardly a datacenter specific issue.

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