AI and Data Centers and Water...
I had a meeting with the Vice-President of Facilities for a 500,000
square foot data center in January. He told me that at maximum server
load and max cooling, the data center uses 800 gallons per hour.
Let's do the math: 800*24 = 19,200 gallons of water per day (assuming
max continuous load).
My house, with its swimming pool, uses 25,000 gallons per month. That's
833 gallons per day. That 11 acre data center uses 23 times more water
than my house. This is a pretty inconvenient fact.
That same VP also told me they're building a data center in Phoenix that
uses no water.
Regards,
George Toft
On 3/10/2026 6:14 AM, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote:
On 2026-03-09 15:40, David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss wrote:
Here’s my current take on things:
Interesting take on things!! All of our problems come down to greed.
So Phoenix has a pending water shortage... add tech layoffs,,, add
return to office... Yikes!!
I think the French Revolution is a great indication of what might
well happen — the billionaires will get the guilllitine and their
wealth will be distributed to everybody they have been stealing from
over the past 50 years to accrue their wealth.
At some point, the inabilty for a significant portion of the
population to make a living wage will catch up to politicians and
they’re going to pay dearly for it.
When it takes three people making minimum wage to afford to live in a
decent home and just get by, while the average home price is $500k
and rising, and politicans think anybody who can’t live on minimumw
wage is an immigrant who’s here illegally and need to be rounded-up
and become a ward of the state with no due-process rights, we’re in
for a pretty ugly recokening.
A housing crash is is just part of it. That will take the banks down,
along with the entire economy.
-David Schwartz
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