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“ A typical mid-sized data center uses around 300,000 gallons of water a day, roughly what 1,000 homes consume. However, a massive "hyperscale" data center—the kind built to train and run modern AI models—can consume up to 5 million gallons of water per day. That is equivalent to the daily water needs of a town of 30,000 to 50,000 people. When a single campus pulls that much water, it acts like a massive straw in the local watershed.



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According to a Department of Energy report, the indirect water footprint of U.S. data centers from electricity generation reached roughly 211 billion gallons in 2023—nearly 12 times the amount of water they consumed directly on-site. Because the AI boom is driving up power demand.”

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Ok, So what happens to the water that is “consumed”????

One of two things happen. The water either gets turned into steam and released into the air where it condenses and falls as rain, or it is returned to the river warmer than it was but still liquid.

Neither of these things “use” or “consume” water it just either was it up or moves it a few miles. But the only water that humans “consume” is water sent to space. That water isn’t coming back. But water released as steam is just moving a few miles it’s not going anywhere.

It will be impossible. We are not divided by State or even region. We are divided urban and rural.

If a State or group of States left what would happen to the urban areas of that State. Would the cities of Birmingham, Montgomery, and Mobile leave the State of Alabama??

We have these in my County. Ask me how my 16 year old taught me that.

Pitts seems like a guy who doesn’t like football much. He plays it because he was given a ton of talent and physical gifts but he would rather do another job.

I remember just a decade ago when it was racist to say white people were being replaced. It wasn’t happening and if you thought it was happening you were a conspiracy theorist and a racist.

Now I guess we are in the stage where it happened but it’s good it happened.

Any argument that is based on “destroying” water is invalid. Water that is turned into steam is not “lost” or “destroyed”, water that is returned warmer than it was is not “used”, “lost” or “destroyed”.

The only water on Earth that is lost or destroyed is the tiny amount we lose in space travel.

Moneyball.

“ This is why I can’t understand why we could not secure the Strait of Hormuz”
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Iran has good drone missiles, If they were to attack a merchant ship it won’t be with a ship or plane it will be with a dozen small drones. They just have to get one through our defense once and we would have to hit every drone they fired, 100% of the time.

Trailer tires are pretty cheap. You may want to replace them even if they have tread on them. Or if not just get a spare that’s pretty new.

I’m surprised the British and Germans have given up their Nations. The French are doing what the French do.