Water is used in cooling the servers. That it will impact local water usage is bunk, because these are closed-loop, filtered systems, not drawing river water.
Our township is fighting one of these data centers, and the arguments against are pretty loopy. Power, yes, it will draw a ton. Noise...yeah, but no worse than the factory across the street. On Tue, Dec 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2 Dec 2025, Simon Albrecht wrote: > > > On 02.12.25 21:40, [email protected] wrote: > > > It's not different in this respect from using computers at all, so > this is > > > an odd objection to raise on an Internet mailing list. > > > > Uhm, yes, it is different. Have you read any news at all? In terms of > energy > > News media reports of environmental impacts associated with AI - > especially water use, which is closely related to energy use because the > water is used in producing the energy - are frequently inaccurate. > There's some good information on the topic, with the detailed citations > that news reports should and don't routinely include, in this article: > > https://andymasley.substack.com/p/the-ai-water-issue-is-fake > > -- > Matthew Skala > [email protected] People before tribes. > https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/ > > -- *Jeff Kopmanis* Medium: https://kopmanis.medium.com GLAAC: https://www.glaac.org/ University Lowbrow Astronomers: https://lowbrows.club Orange Can Astronomy: https://www.facebook.com/orangecanastronomy/ ** Go Green and leave this email on the Screen! **
