hunterpayne

Citation needed; good luck

"stupidity" sounds apropos

Personally, I am annoyed by AI responses that include courtesy and emotional words like "please" and "thank you". I'd prefer to just get simple factual answers.

There are communities that are on water restrictions where datacenters have no such restrictions (and pay less).

It's also true after some datacenters opened the local aquifers were polluted.

Then there are legit concerns about noise, air quality from LNG generators, etc

Plenty of very legitimate reasons to dislike them, and each community likely has a different set of concerns.

Tell that to the aquafers we’re emptying that won’t refill for generations.

Water is renewable, but not necessarily in the right place or in timely manner.

Using treated potable water to cool servers is just taxpayers subsidizing server cooling.

I don't think tech companies appreciate the extent to which they used to get the benefit of the doubt just because people liked them.

I'm neither for nor against, but on the physics here: basically all of the energy input as electricity is transformed to heat leaving a datacenter. Only a tiny tiny fraction is emitted as radiation (eg floodlights outside or light in fiber optics) or as kinetic energy (air moving away from fans/vents).

Computers are machines for turning electric energy into heat energy, plus some small useful side effects.

Though there might be practical differences though between the excess heat intentionally exhausted, and other heat. Just speaking from a very macro sense.

An electronic circuit drawing 1W of input power will dissipate all of that 1W as heat (assuming it's not outputting light or sound or other physical side effects).