re: Mississippi doing Mississippi things

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You know what... frick you

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Facts

LINK

Hmmmm...

I wonder what drags down Southern IQs?

I’ve asked this question in a few forums and it has yet to be answered.

How do data centers “use” water. The water they heat up and either release back into a river or lake is not “used”, nor is water that has been turned into steam and it falls as rain a few miles away.

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Trying hard or hardly trying!!

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You're not answering any questions or addressing any of the factual errors in your assumptions.

You sound retarded.

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A typical mid-sized data center uses around 300,000 gallons of water a day, roughly what 1,000 homes consume. However, a massive "hyperscale" data center—the kind built to train and run modern AI models—can consume up to 5 million gallons of water per day. That is equivalent to the daily water needs of a town of 30,000 to 50,000 people. When a single campus pulls that much water, it acts like a massive straw in the local watershed.

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According to a Department of Energy report, the indirect water footprint of U.S. data centers from electricity generation reached roughly 211 billion gallons in 2023—nearly 12 times the amount of water they consumed directly on-site. Because the AI boom is driving up power demand

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Regulated utilities don't pay for infrastructure out of their own pockets; they get permission from state regulators to roll those multi-billion-dollar construction costs into the "rate base." This cost is then spread across all ratepayers—meaning a residential household's monthly delivery fee goes up to pay for grid upgrades that were explicitly built to support a tech giant's AI campus

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In deregulated wholesale markets, electricity prices are determined by supply and demand. Data center developers are cash-rich and desperate for speed; they are willing to pay a premium to lock down guaranteed electricity.

This massive surge in wholesale demand has caused localized power prices to spike. Over the last few years, residential retail electricity prices in major data center heavily-impacted regions (like Maryland, Washington D.C., and parts of the Midwest) have seen sharp double-digit percentage increases.

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A typical mid-sized data center uses around 300,000 gallons of water a day, roughly what 1,000 homes consume.

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Did you know there’s a river, same as the said state was named after,, that has billions of cubic feet of water that travels down it everyday?

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don't care if they are happy with higher electricity prices and water shortage in the future. I am sure General Landry will not be behind in this initiative

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I live near a huge data center and as usual, this is all BS. In a year the data center has been operating, we have yet to experience any higher energy cost

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Same scare tactics they used to set our nuclear program back decades.

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I recently watched a podcast of an interview with a guy who had all the actual data.

The prices definitely increase on electricity and the water consumption is very high. But if you place these data centers around large population centers, the offset in cost becomes negligible. And if you are near a place that has enormous rivers, the water usage because less of an issue as well.

The problem is that most of the proposals for these data centers are put forth in areas with more limited resources and less population. That ends up making the cost increase astronomical because it's spread across less people, and simultaneously makes the resource drain far more significant.

There is a solution, but it requires putting these data centers near to (and within) major population centers, and those areas must be water-rich. If Mississippi has that set of circumstances in their favor, they'll flourish.

This AI and Data Centers stuff is a djinn that cannot be put back into the flask. We all know it at this point. The middle ground is going to have to be expanding it as rapidly and efficiently as possible without passing the costs onto already-struggling rural areas. And the sheer footprint that these data centers require makes that problematic when looking to put them near population centers as opposed to small towns and folk in the sticks.

Also, as you alluded, there's absolutely no excuse in modern America to not be solely using hydraulic and microreactors for our primary energy, with microreactors eventually completely phasing-out the hydraulic generators as well. You put a microreactor at a new data center build and while it increases the need for water, the facility itself all of a sudden produces 100% of its own power and also becomes a net electricity exporter. But again, that comes down to water supply.