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re: AI Data centers
Posted on 5/7/26 at 7:32 pm to Timeoday
Posted on 5/7/26 at 7:32 pm to Timeoday
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"How are you going to say that somehow the water can go to a data center when we need to water for our own people and for the core functions of our society?
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Posted on 5/7/26 at 8:00 pm to Ailsa
Chill a little folks.
It's self powered! Trump said they have to be.
The water is for cooling, it won't be gone.
It's self powered! Trump said they have to be.
The water is for cooling, it won't be gone.
Posted on 5/7/26 at 8:02 pm to LSUbest
initially the one in our state will use 8 million gallons and they said they would use 1 million more per year to refill.
Posted on 5/7/26 at 8:05 pm to Ailsa
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1 million more per year to refill.
So it's going to evaporate from cooling towers as steam.
Back to the environment.
This post was edited on 5/7/26 at 8:07 pm
Posted on 5/7/26 at 8:58 pm to Ailsa
Kinda like the society that uses a food source for car fuel. What will they think of next?
Posted on 5/7/26 at 9:09 pm to Ailsa
Those who are against AI don’t understand that if we don’t get out ahead of it, we’ll be the only superpower that will be behind on it. It sucks I know. But it’s the reality.
This post was edited on 5/7/26 at 9:11 pm
Posted on 5/7/26 at 10:49 pm to Ailsa
Lots of places to get water there like close enough to the Mississippi PHUCKING River.
Meta is paying Entergy to build excess power capacity. That means lower cost to the grid, no charge for building it passed on.
Everyone complaining using what makes these places needed,
Cry me a river you fagtards
Meta is paying Entergy to build excess power capacity. That means lower cost to the grid, no charge for building it passed on.
Everyone complaining using what makes these places needed,
Cry me a river you fagtards
Posted on 5/7/26 at 10:54 pm to CitizenK
Louisiana has plenty of water…..
Posted on 5/7/26 at 11:03 pm to Zgeo
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Louisiana has plenty of water…
Water for industries in Westlake (Lake Charles) get their water from the Sabine River 35 miles away via a canal then there are concrete lined pipe it flows through on the south side of I-10 up to the Calcasieu River.
LINK
This post was edited on 5/7/26 at 11:09 pm
Posted on 5/8/26 at 8:41 am to CitizenK
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Lots of places to get water there like close enough to the Mississippi PHUCKING River.
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Missouri water, power plants and agriculture at risk under new North Dakota plan, officials say
A project to divert water away from the Missouri River has sparked a new fight in a decades-long conflict over how to manage the river’s water in times of drought.
https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/missouri-water-at-risk-north-dakota-river-plan-power-plants-agriculture/63-4ab64334-48a8-46ca-9399-ea9f1c70fb6d
Posted on 5/8/26 at 9:52 am to Madking
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No kings
They just mean No Trump but too fricking bad for them.
Posted on 5/8/26 at 9:53 am to LSUbest
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So it's going to evaporate from cooling towers as steam.
Back to the environment.
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Key Concerns Regarding Cooling Tower Emissions:Drift (Contaminant Drift): While the vapor is pure, small liquid water droplets known as "drift" can be carried out of the tower by airflow. This drift can contain concentrated dissolved solids, scale inhibitors, biocide treatment chemicals, and heavy metals.
Legionella Bacteria: The warm, moist environment of cooling towers is a known breeding ground for Legionella bacteria. Proper maintenance and chemical treatment are required to prevent the release of these bacteria into the air.
Chemical Treatment Agents: To prevent scaling and corrosion, operators use chemical treatments, including biocides (like bromine (highly toxic)or chlorine dioxide) and inhibitors, which are concentrated in the remaining water and potentially released via drift.
Discharge (Blowdown): Roughly 20–30% of the water used is not evaporated but discharged as "blowdown," which is high in concentrated contaminants and can pose a risk to local water treatment facilities.
Posted on 5/8/26 at 9:55 am to Timeoday
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Kinda like the society that uses a food source for car fuel. What will they think of next?
Anything that destroys the earth & reduces the population at a profit
Posted on 5/8/26 at 10:19 am to LSUbest
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So it's going to evaporate from cooling towers as steam.
Back to the environment.
Underground =/ Atmosphere
This post was edited on 5/8/26 at 10:20 am
Posted on 5/13/26 at 5:52 pm to KamaCausey_LSU
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John Rich????
@johnrich
May 2
Replying to @KrehbielAuthor
Yes
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Posted on 5/13/26 at 7:48 pm to Ailsa
Most of this is bullshite media fear porn and you panicans are falling for it. These are closed loop cooling for the most part with minimal water use compared to these number of billions of gallons being tossed around. It never stops “data centers are warming the air around them” bs bs bs.
Posted on 5/14/26 at 6:40 pm to DustInTheWind
These data centers are nothing more than infrastructure for the AI surveillance state being done on Trump's watch. He's a trojan horse, always has been but his worshippers can't see or admit it. They will see it though, when it's too late.
Posted on 5/14/26 at 7:03 pm to Hognutz
Never fear, O'crazio-Cortex and Bernie will save us.
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If tweet fails to load, click here.Posted on 5/14/26 at 7:09 pm to uggabugga
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It’s a huge $16 billion project for OpenAI and Oracle. Last September, Saline Township board members voted 4 to 1 against allowing a proposal for an AI data center to proceed
The land has been zoned agricultural for decades, even hundreds of years. They didn't want it to become anything industrial
Now 575 acres of farmland are being rezoned for the data center. The full campus footprint described as up to 21 million square feet. It’s one of the largest construction projects in Michigan history
Here’s what happened
- Related Digital (the developer) proposed rezoning agricultural land
- September 2025: Saline Township Planning Commission and Board voted against it
- Just 2 days later: Related Digital sued for “exclusionary zoning”
- Township settled quickly because they were advised they couldn’t afford the ongoing lawsuit against these tech giants
The plant will use the equivalent energy of 1 million homes
Apparently energy usage and climate change aren’t a problem anymore. Funny how that works…. Just a couple years ago we were told not to use our air conditionings because we’d destroy the planet
Posted on 5/14/26 at 7:25 pm to Hognutz
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These data centers are nothing more than infrastructure for the AI surveillance state being done on Trump's watch. He's a trojan horse, always has been but his worshippers can't see or admit it. They will see it though, when it's too late.
I voted for Trump but I can’t disagree with you .
Why else would they need over 5000 of these massive data centers?
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