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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This is the industrial version of that story, but it's always the same. Don't build big new cities in the desert, don't grow cotton in the desert, don't put massively water-intensive data centers in the desert. There's a pattern here if you can catch on!https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/drought-stricken-communities-push-back-against-data-centers-n1271344 …
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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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