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A data center drained 30M gallons of water unnoticed — until residents complained about low water pressure (www.politico.com)
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[–] Yaky@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Using tap water for cooling is such an idiotic engineering decision it feels like it was suggested by an LLM chatbot.

Power plants use water too, but they draw it from the nearby river or lake, recycle it through cooling towers, and/or dump it back out into the river or lake. Or course that has its own effects, but at least it's not depriving a nearby town of drinking water by existing.

[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 3 points 1 hour ago

The pipes were running just nearby the data centre, free real estate