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[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

A small data center has been estimated to use upwards of 25 million liters of water per year if it relies on old-school cooling methods that allow water to evaporate.

So pass a law banning evaporative cooling systems from all industrial and commercial applications (or single out data centers), give them 6 months to comply and start handing out fines every day past the deadline.

[–] thr0w4w4y2@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

cool. and watch the entire right wing go mad over “net zero wokery” and “stealth taxes choking our economy to death.” then watch reform win with a landslide and bulldoze the entire net zero agenda and see where we end up.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The right will always complain no matter what you do, so why bother listening to them and capitulating?

[–] thr0w4w4y2@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 week ago

sensibly managing the economy and balancing the need to achieve reduced emissions with the need to maintain a functional economy is not capitulating, and indeed being seen to carefully maintain that balance might be key to election victory in four years time.

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