Meta data center water discharges suspended for contaminating water supply
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Re: Meta data center water discharges suspended for contaminating water supply
#2> after tracing a rare bacterium in the city's reclaimed water to Goat Systems LLC, the entity Meta uses to build its Cheyenne campus
Hey where’s that person from yesterday who argued with me over the 1m vs 1cm hole in the boat?
Everyone saying stop talking about data center water use is missing the entire point as this article shows.
Re: Meta data center water discharges suspended for contaminating water supply
#3> after tracing a rare bacterium in the city's reclaimed water to Goat Systems LLC, the entity Meta uses to build its Cheyenne campus Hey where’s that person from yesterday who argued with me over the 1m vs 1cm hole in the boat? Everyone saying stop talking about data center water use is missing the entire point as this article shows.
Data center water use is a fairly separate topic from what this article covers. Related of course but the conversation on USE centers around actual volume use, not contaminants.
Re: Meta data center water discharges suspended for contaminating water supply
#4> after tracing a rare bacterium in the city's reclaimed water to Goat Systems LLC, the entity Meta uses to build its Cheyenne campus Hey where’s that person from yesterday who argued with me over the 1m vs 1cm hole in the boat? Everyone saying stop talking about data center water use is missing the entire point as this article shows.
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Re: Meta data center water discharges suspended for contaminating water supply
#5> after tracing a rare bacterium in the city's reclaimed water to Goat Systems LLC, the entity Meta uses to build its Cheyenne campus Hey where’s that person from yesterday who argued with me over the 1m vs 1cm hole in the boat? Everyone saying stop talking about data center water use is missing the entire point as this article shows.
Data center water use is a fairly separate topic from what this article covers. Related of course but the conversation on USE centers around actual volume use, not contaminants.
Discharge, is part of "water usage". Arguing otherwise is embarrassing.
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#6A bit meta - the names in this article made me chuckle:
Goat Systems, Cowboy State Daily, Cupriavidus gilardii, Frank Strong the Board's Manager and the Crow Creek and Dry Creek facilities.
This is gold for a comedy sketch :)
Re: Meta data center water discharges suspended for contaminating water supply
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How do I, as an ordinary person, benefit from Meta's data centers? I don't have any presence on Meta's platforms & the only time I even notice their existence is when someone sends me a text message via signal for some viral link on one of the social networks.
I think you're overestimating the relevance of these data centers for regular people. They can get by just fine w/ local¹ & a lot less environmentally destructive computational resources.
Re: Meta data center water discharges suspended for contaminating water supply
#9This is why datacenters in central texas are desperate to build anywhere in the edwards aquifer... so they can get "free" water from natural springs (already stressed by draught) and dump the effluent into city wastewater systems.
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How do I, as an ordinary person, benefit from Meta's data centers? I don't have any presence on Meta's platforms & the only time I even notice their existence is when someone sends me a text message via signal for some viral link on one of the social networks. I think you're overestimating the relevance of these data centers for regular people. They can get by just fine w/ local¹ & a lot less environmentally destruct…
'regular people' use YouTube, Facebook, Instagram etc.
Even you use HN.
Not everything can be local.
My friends and family aren't going to be convinced to use a Jitsi instance running in my house (where I pay $0.35/kWh).