Typically the water go to an evaporative cooling tower outside to reduce the heat. As with all evaporative cooling, you lose some of that to evaporation and that has to be replenished. Some data centers perform rain water collection from their large roofs and use that to offset. Some data centers take the waste water treatment plant output and use that. Some data centers use geothermal to reject the heat into the ground (more niche but gaining momentum). I would encourage people to go research the amount of water consumed by data centers (including the power generation to run them) vs golf courses and almond farms in the United States. Something tells me that if you do that it will be eye opening numbers.

I feel sorry for all the green types that dedicate so much of their life to CO2 reduction only to see gigawatt scale data centers being built at breakneck speed. Look at the bright-side though, the ROI on the solar panels will be better based upon the shear economics of rising electricity prices due to data centers.

This is retarded. Linus is literally doing Vibe coding and reviewing it.

Did you get the memo? No one cares any more about this because we've moved on to AI. The need for power is so great that we will generate it in whatever form necessary. We're taking used JET ENGINEs and powering data centers.

I almost spit my coffee out when they said "gouge the customer". Having had the privilege of paying PG&E tier pricing at one point in my life, it honestly can't get any worse than it already is.

Trust the science, except for every single day we're learning that something they said was a lie. So I'm sure that GMO stuff that they fought tooth and nail to prevent labeling of is fine. That fake meat with a gazillion ingredients is supposedly fine too.

They trashed the IP. I could care less about the latest round of movies.

think of doing with all your cash. The vision pro isn't going to take off this go round. Everything else is super mature and VERY polished. So it's just a natural upgrade cycle cash cow. Maybe they can take their amazing ARM technology and get back into servers.

The editorial review process is amazing.

They probably meant PB.

Yep, zero cares given about that platform. Slashdot4Lyfe.

If they won a competition against other teams, great! Comparing it to what is on the road is pointless. That vehicle is not optimized to carry 4 people and have all the required safety equipment and crash standards to be deemed road worthy.

and in the data center bind them.

AWS has RARELY killed a service. They are militant about not breaking their APIs either.

Just answer these questions. How many tons of minerals have to be mined to produce the battery and rare earth powered magnets in your BEV motor? How much fuel is consumed during that mining process? What is the carbon footprint of that battery?