Tradeoff: higher power usage.

Author: iairishcheeks (30102 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 5:04 pm on Jul 27, 2026

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Municipalities could charge data centers more for water that would make closed loop costs advantageous, but as is there are way more evaporative systems than closed loop.

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As China pushes the Left's protests of our data centers for their own advantage, I have yet to hear - BaronVonZemo - 2:54pm 7/27/26 (12) [View All]
- It's natural for people to fear that which they don't understand. - iairishcheeks - 3:09pm 7/27/26
  - Energy is the one real issue, but it has several good solutions that they don't appear to care about - BaronVonZemo - 3:17pm 7/27/26
    - A single medium sized data center consumes water equivalent to 30-40K private citizens. - iairishcheeks - 4:40pm 7/27/26
      - Spot on...anyone...including Baron...could have found out about this, had they cared to learn why - TyroneIrish - 6:18pm 7/27/26
      - Not with a closed loop system. [NT] [LINK] - BaronVonZemo - 4:51pm 7/27/26
        
        Tradeoff: higher power usage. - iairishcheeks - 5:04pm 7/27/26
        
        Which they could pay for with their separate commercial nuclear energy system that I described. - BaronVonZemo - 6:49pm 7/27/26
        
        I completely agree that there are solutions, but the solutions aren't being considered. [NT] - iairishcheeks - 8:20pm 7/27/26
        
        Exactly my point. Very solvable. But goal of Left is to block US AI project per Chinese funders…. - BaronVonZemo - 9:54pm 7/27/26
        
        . [NT] - TyroneIrish - 6:10pm 7/27/26
- Ludditism lives on the left. [NT] [LINK] - Curly1918 - 3:05pm 7/27/26
  - Flawed thinking that causes them to repeat their mistakes over and over again. Ironically, they - BaronVonZemo - 4:56pm 7/27/26

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