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Re:Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and e... by tptacek on Sunday October 04, 2026 @11:28PM (#49960379)
No, it's just that people notice when they're being asked to concern themselves with numbers this far to the right of the decimal point. It's not just that almonds are bad. It's that they're vastly, heroically worse than data centers, so much so that optimizing water usage at data centers is like reorganizing deck chairs on the Titanic.

If you actually care about water use, you stop producing ethanol. But nobody really cares about water; that's not what this is about.

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Re:Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and e... by chii on Monday October 05, 2026 @02:00AM (#49961168)
> But nobody really cares about water; that's not what this is about.

you've hit the silent nail on the head.

The complaints about data centers are really complaints against ai and its encroachment into people's lives (more specifically, they fear for their jobs due to ai).

If people truly cared so much about the environment, where were their complaints about climate change and such?

It's the same with the recent hype about how AI going rogue or is gonna kill us all if we reach AGI.

None of these are real threats, compared to the threat of climate change, where there's a real threat of crop failures enmass due to consistently extreme weather, and coastal erosion sinking cities, etc. We'll hit this before we reach AGI no doubt.

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