re: How real is a water scarcity threat, re: Building Data Centers?

4 million square feet is 91.827 acres not 2,250. Click bait pure and simple.

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. Rape and pilliage of natural resources

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Ya, except that's not actually happening.

Makes for great headlines though for the gullible.

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Educate yourself before posting.

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And this recycling requires additional energy.

Which in a great many places are generated on location....and often in a manner which circumvent the environmental regulations which a tradition energy producer faces.

IE: there is no simple fix; to such rob Peter to pay Paul equations

I asked ChatGPT if we will ever run out of drinking water. This is the response.

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Short answer: no, Earth isn’t going to “run out” of water. This isn’t some apocalyptic “last bottle of Dasani on Earth” situation.

Long answer, the one people don’t like because it’s less dramatic and more inconvenient:

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And the less dramatic thing it is referring to is the fact water goes through a cycle.

It provided me with an image that shows the cycle of water evaporates from oceans, rivers, bodies of water, condensation, precipitation... shite you learn in 8th grade science class.

And it states that the idea water will run or be scarce is a myth. In my chats where it titles each individual chat it named this one water availability myth.

I remember learning about this shite in school. Do they not teach this anymore? The availability of water is why there is life on earth, why life has survived on earth and will continue to survive on earth for a very long time.

Take the Mississippi River for example. It could be near a drought and when all of the ice melts up north it gets into rivers, etc.. It then makes its way down and the Mississippi river and other bodies of water here will rise, even if its just a little bit. That's just one example of water. Politicians make shite up when they try to pass bills so they can get people to support it. They want people to call their representatives and ask them to vote for whatever.

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I asked ChatGPT if we will ever run out of drinking water

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It's not a fact. Educate yourself before posting. The older data centers use a lot of water. The newer ones don't use much water at all. Microsoft is building the world's "first AI super factory" in Atlanta and it uses other liquids for cooling.

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Ultimately, it’s all moving so fast that it’s hard for anyone to keep up with and rarely does that coincide with billionaires making decisions that are good for you and I

When AI eliminates all you humans, water will not be as necessary as it is now.

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This is the new liberal fight,

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Why do you think this is a "liberal" thing?

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What about during droughts and things… golf courses or people are warned to not water their grass .. will data centers that use way more water than that be placed under the same restrictions ?

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Nope. It’s never that way and it’s hilarious.


They’ll tell people they can’t water their lawns to conserve water but a single industrial facility that uses more water in a day than a neighborhood does in a month doesn’t even get asked if they can consider any conservation strategies.

The concept removes the need for water-intensive cooling systems if Elon says he will not need water for cooling, I'm going to go with what he says.

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Under the proposal, AI satellites would operate as self-contained data centers in orbit, powered almost entirely by solar energy. The concept removes the need for water-intensive cooling systems and grid connections that constrain terrestrial facilities, while also sidestepping land availability and permitting challenges.

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