Contaminate the cooling lines with salt somehow?
this post was submitted on 28 May 2026
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It's for putting in the floppy drives
a bunch of J-Lube and dish soap would be way more fun, though
The guy selling his shit to companies to build the data center is the big money winner. Those things have huge amounts of copper.
The companies building the data centers are likely owned by people with a large stake in the AI company they are building for
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At the core they both consist of a bunch of rocks.
I offer instead:
One glassy gassy boi!
Genuine question: would people be less angry or the same about data centers if all the water used to cool them was taken from the ocean and desalinated?
How about the power they use, driving up prices for the rest of us? How about the destruction of the computer components market so that regular folks can't buy an affordable computer that doesn't suck? How about the jobs they destroy while replacing humans with computers that do inferior work? You're missing so much about why they're hated. They do like 10 kinds of major societal and environmental damage while only meaningfully contributing in specific contexts. Would it be better if they didn't waste insane quantities of water? Yeah, but they'd still be terrible.
China is putting data centers in the ocean to cool them and powering them with wind.
It's an interesting idea, if nothing else. Not sure if it'll be good for local marine life to have data centers warming the ocean, though.
mmm salty chips
Hmm..idk anything abt this but maybe the salt!
