Data center drains 30M gals of water — until residents complained of pressure • Hacker News Board

Re: Data center drains 30M gals of water — until residents complained of pressure

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Post by culi » Mon, May 11, 2026, 6:03 PM UTC

burnt-resistor wrote: post #17

jmye wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Weird comment on an article where that literally isn’t the case. I can’t tell if it’s just bot-driven nonsense, not reading the text, or just dishonesty masquerading as commentary.

Do you have anything constructive or non ad hominem to say? I think you should apologize for being a complete asshat. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If you were truly committed to substantive conversation here you would've read the article before posting.

Less than 10% of data centers used closed loop systems and even closed loop requires regular evaporation of the water which builds up into toxic sludge after a few cycles—the biggest concern being the PFAS and the anti-freeze and anti-corrosives they add to the water

Re: Data center drains 30M gals of water — until residents complained of pressure

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, May 11, 2026, 9:16 PM UTC

culi wrote: post #20

dnw wrote: post #4

I had some questions in my mind about DCs using closed loop systems and read the article a little. In case anyone else also has similar thoughts: —- The company said its water consumption was so high last year because of temporary construction-related activities, such as concrete work, dust control and site preparation. Once operational, the company said the data centers only will use water for domestic needs, such a…

This industry line about closed loop systems not using much water is so pervasive on HN and so wrong. So many people are spreading industry propaganda First of all, only about 10% of data centers use closed-loop systems. Pointing to a technology that technically exists but is far from standard to represent the entire industry is ridiculous. Second of all, these facilities do NOT infinitely recycle water. They must re…

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Re: Data center drains 30M gals of water — until residents complained of pressure

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Post by jmye » Wed, May 13, 2026, 4:30 AM UTC

burnt-resistor wrote: post #17

jmye wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Weird comment on an article where that literally isn’t the case. I can’t tell if it’s just bot-driven nonsense, not reading the text, or just dishonesty masquerading as commentary.

Do you have anything constructive or non ad hominem to say? I think you should apologize for being a complete asshat. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I think you should post substantively about the actual fucking article, instead of musing about nonsense, but here we are.

Call me more names, though, bro. That’ll beat the AI allegations.