I am sick and tired of the left’s war on data centers. Hey leftist idiot jerks, if you use a mobile device such as your phone, do any online searching, visit any website, have a bank account, or basically interact with the modern world in any way, a data center is not just involved but essential.
So the two major Trojan horses are (a) water use and (b) electrical costs.
Let’s address each in turn.
(a) Water use: Data centers recycle their water. A massive data center fills up with about as much water as two hotel swimming pools. Then recycles. That’s it. No significant more water use.
(b) Electrical costs: Most data centers have their own power generation. Why? Simple economics. It’s cheaper than buying power off the grid.
I don’t talk about this much but I have a graduate degree in engineering and have actually helped build out data centers. That part of my career is in the past – have moved on to other things – but I’ve actually been there, done that.
Data centers should be called job centers. Install creates a lot of jobs. Support maintains many including in surrounding businesses.
Data center hysteria by the leftidiots is the modern version of global warming hysteria. Aren’t we all supposed to be dead now per Al Gore? Sheesh.
Plytar