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'I can't drink the water' - life next to a US data centre

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'I can't drink the water' - life next to a US data centre

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

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Residents in rural Georgia say the data centre next door has disrupted their water supply.

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I’m still not entirely sure why these data centers require such massive amounts of water when we’ve been running heat exchange loops in nuclear plants for decades.

Because many are running evaporative cooling.

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