My favorite genre of climate change story is "we built an incredibly fast-growing city out in the desert where there is no water and it is too hot. Can it survive?" Well, no, it can't. And it shouldn't. Why did you do that?
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The good news is since everybody just moved to these places, we know they can move out again. When the ancestral lands only go back to mom and dad buying into a subdivision in 1990, it's less painful.pic.twitter.com/jM3BooDVJg
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Now I will agree that building data centers out here isn't the best idea. It gets kind of hot this time of year. I didn't watch the local weather yesterday, but we were forecast to hit 119.
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Data centers are probably best located in cooler climates with less expensive power.
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And golf courses.
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Why would a data-center be "water-intensive"? Cooling systems are closed-loop.
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The staff is really thirsty
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The story is actually very different in industrial society. 96% of the water use* in the united states is for agriculture. If you no longer need to produce food locally building stuff in the desert is way more practical.
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But there's also a longstanding tradition of waving at non agricultural uses as if they're some huge burden on the water supply despite it really just being about agriculture.
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When the City of Gilbert created a Foreign-Trade Zone where “Merchandise may be exported out of the U.S. duty free”, the chip makers don’t give two fucks about water supply
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You are tweeting this as if Paul Graham did not send icanhascheezburger guy to figure out cities. He's going to write up his findings. Don't you have some polar tales to tell?
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