#waterconsumption — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #waterconsumption, aggregated by home.social.
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A data center drained 30M gallons of water unnoticed — until residents complained about low water pressure
The neighbors of a data center in Georgia are steaming after they discovered the facility had sucked up…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Business #datacenter #fayetteville #gallonsofwater #Georgia #QTS #QualityTechnologyServices #VanessaTigert #waterconsumption #waterhookups #waterpressure #watersystem
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A data center drained 30M gallons of water unnoticed — until residents complained about low water pressure
The neighbors of a data center in Georgia are steaming after they discovered the facility had sucked up…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Business #datacenter #fayetteville #gallonsofwater #Georgia #QTS #QualityTechnologyServices #VanessaTigert #waterconsumption #waterhookups #waterpressure #watersystem
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Environmentally Conscious Man Gives Up Drinking Water to Counteract His Rampant AI Usage
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https://www.europesays.com/dk/64933/ Data center for Microsoft consumes up to 420M liters of industrial water a week #Amsterdam #cooling #DataCenter #Hyperscale #IndustrialWater #microsoft #Netherlands #PowerConsumption #PureDC #WaterConsumption
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Data center for Microsoft consumes up to 420M liters of industrial water a week
Pure DC is building the city’s largest data center in Amsterdam Westpoort, with Microsoft as its sole tenant.…
#Netherlands #Nederland #NL #Europe #Europa #EU #Amsterdam #Cooling #DataCenter #hyperscale #industrialwater #Microsoft #powerconsumption #PureDC #waterconsumption
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Drink Water Like This To Stay Hydrated!
Discover the optimal way to hydrate your body! Learn how proper water consumption, combined with the right mineral balance, can improve your health. We explore the importance of Celtic salt and proper hydration techniques for peak well-being. Watch now!
Follow @biohackingpathway for more
#waterconsumption #hydration #minerals #healthtips #wellbeing #celticsalt #healthylifestyle #healthadvice #fitness #hydrationtips
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Drink Water Like This To Stay Hydrated!
Discover the optimal way to hydrate your body! Learn how proper water consumption, combined with the right mineral balance, can improve your health. We explore the importance of Celtic salt and proper hydration techniques for peak well-being. Watch now!
Follow @biohackingpathway for more
#waterconsumption #hydration #minerals #healthtips #wellbeing #celticsalt #healthylifestyle #healthadvice #fitness #hydrationtips
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@nilton
Residents unite to block TikTok data center in Ceará state, Brazil
"In July, The Intercept Br revealed,based on an internal document obtained exclusively, t the Casa dos Ventos &TikTok project in Caucaia cld consume as much energy per day in its initial phase as 2.2 million Brazilians consume.If the data center were a city, it would be the 7th largest energy consumer in Brazil"
#Colonialism #DataCenter #WaterConsumption #WaterGrab #IndigenousRights #IndigenousPeoples #WaterSovereignty -
@nilton
Residents unite to block TikTok data center in Ceará state, Brazil
"In July, The Intercept Br revealed,based on an internal document obtained exclusively, t the Casa dos Ventos &TikTok project in Caucaia cld consume as much energy per day in its initial phase as 2.2 million Brazilians consume.If the data center were a city, it would be the 7th largest energy consumer in Brazil"
#Colonialism #DataCenter #WaterConsumption #WaterGrab #IndigenousRights #IndigenousPeoples #WaterSovereignty -
@nilton
Residents unite to block TikTok data center in Ceará state, Brazil
"In July, The Intercept Br revealed,based on an internal document obtained exclusively, t the Casa dos Ventos &TikTok project in Caucaia cld consume as much energy per day in its initial phase as 2.2 million Brazilians consume.If the data center were a city, it would be the 7th largest energy consumer in Brazil"
#Colonialism #DataCenter #WaterConsumption #WaterGrab #IndigenousRights #IndigenousPeoples #WaterSovereignty -
@nilton
Residents unite to block TikTok data center in Ceará state, Brazil
"In July, The Intercept Br revealed,based on an internal document obtained exclusively, t the Casa dos Ventos &TikTok project in Caucaia cld consume as much energy per day in its initial phase as 2.2 million Brazilians consume.If the data center were a city, it would be the 7th largest energy consumer in Brazil"
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#computers #water #WaterConsumption
#TheObserver:
Sunday 7 September 2025Fears as datacentres ‘fail to disclose water usage’.
Jon Ungoed-Thomas
https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/fears-as-datacentres-fail-to-disclose-water-usage
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*The Detrimental Effects of Data Centers' Rising #WaterConsumption*
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...The devastating effects that occur, when #Multinationals such as #Nestlé or #Danone monopolize the #FreshWater supply, can be seen in many locations. 6)
👉In my view, #DataCenter operators need to be obliged not only to purchase #CarbonOffsetCredits.
A similar program needs to be developed for the #Conservation of the world's dwindling #FreshWater resources,👈
As a starting... -
*The Detrimental Effects of Data Centers' Rising #WaterConsumption*
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#Water Usage Effectiveness:
https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/cooling/a-guide-to-data-center-water-usage-effectiveness-wue-and-best-practices...👉 #Amazon, with 81, and #Microsoft, with 23.
As a share of their data centers, Microsoft ranks first with 52% in such arid spots.👈" 5)...
5) center locations in #arid regions:
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-ai-impacts-data-centers-water-data/https://www.businessinsider.com/how-data-centers-are-deepening-the-water-crisis-2025-6?op=1
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*The Detrimental Effects of Data Centers' Rising #WaterConsumption*
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...the installed base.
For another, through inefficient #water use. 4)A whopping 40%, however, are due to building in already #arid regions of the globe:
"#BusinessInsider found that 👉40% of the nation's planned and existing #DataCenters are in areas that the nonprofit #WorldResourcesInstitute, which focuses on...
3) #WaterConsumption by #DataCenters:
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Why sunflower oil has replaced olive oil as Spain’s main cooking oil https://www.diningandcooking.com/1988576/why-sunflower-oil-has-replaced-olive-oil-as-spains-main-cooking-oil/ #Activists #Alicante #ClimateChange #CostaBlanca #drought #MarinaAlta #Mediterranean #MediterraneanOliveOil #Olive #OliveOil #spain #SunflowerOil #SwimmingPools #TapWater #tourism #WaterConsumption #WaterScarcity #weather
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A Planetary Boundary For Geological Resources - Exploring The Limits Of Regional Water Availability
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https://phys.org/news/2025-03-planetary-boundary-geological-resources-exploring.html <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adk5318 <-- shared paper
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https://im-mining.com/2023/04/26/united-thinking-on-mining-water-solutions-can-save-money-and-protect-the-environment-worley-says/ <-- shared industry article
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #global #regional #water #hydrology #waterresources #watersecurity #mine #mining #processing #minerals #criticalmetals #energy #products #services #surfacewater #groundwater #naturalresources #resources #geology #ecosphere #technosphere #watermanagement #sustainability #sustainableuselimit #waterconsumption #industry #production #constraints #mineralproduction #economy #economics #model #modeling #coal #iron #copper #gold -
»#GenerativeAI’s #environmentalimpact: Rapid development and deployment of powerful generative #AImodels comes with increased #electricitydemand and #waterconsumption.« https://news.mit.edu/2025/explained-generative-ai-environmental-impact-0117?eicker.news #tech #media
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Not to mention all the #WaterConsumption! There are plans to restart aging nuclear reactor as well as untested SMR reactors! Will #AI’s huge energy demands spur a #nuclear renaissance?
By Davide Castelvecchi
25 October 2024Do small modular reactors carry extra risks?
"In some cases, small modular reactors 'could actually push nuclear power in a more dangerous direction', says #EdwinLyman. 'Advanced isn’t always better.'
"In particular, Lyman points out that the pebble-bed designs drawn up by #XEnergy and #Kairos would rely on high-assay low-enriched #uranium (#HALEU), which comprises 10–20% uranium-235 — compared with the 5% enrichment level required by most existing reactors (and by #NuScale’s reactor). HALEU is still classified as low-enrichment fuel (as opposed to the highly enriched uranium used to make nuclear bombs), but that distinction is misleading, Lyman says. In June, he and his collaborators — including physicist Richard Garwin, who led the design of the first hydrogen bomb — warned in a Science article that a bomb could be built with a few hundred kilograms of HALEU, with no need for further enrichment.
"Smaller reactors are also likely to produce more nuclear waste and to use fuel less efficiently, according to work reported in 2022 by Macfarlane and her collaborators. In a full-size reactor, most of the neutrons produced by the splitting of uranium travel through a large volume of fuel, meaning that they have a high probability of hitting another nucleus, rather than colliding with the walls of the reactor vessel or escaping into the surrounding building. 'When you shrink the reactor, there’s less material in there, so you will have more neutron leakage,' Macfarlane says. These rogue neutrons can be absorbed by other atomic nuclei — which would then themselves become radioactive."
Original article:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03490-3Archived version:
https://archive.ph/mODpF#selection-952.0-991.164#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Cryptocurrency #DataCenters #RethinkNotRestart #NoNukesForAI #NoNukes #NuclearHype #NeutronEmbrittlement #NuclearWaste #NotCarbonFree
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Remember how #Skynet and #Terminators were just fine with a #nuclear devastated world? Hmmm... #BigTech is going all in on #NuclearPower as sustainability concerns around #AI grow
Yahoo Finance
Daniel Howley
October 23, 2024"#ArtificialIntelligence has driven shares of tech companies like #Microsoft (#MSFT), #Amazon (#AMZN), #Nvidia (N#VDA), and #Google (GOOG, GOOGL) to new highs this year. But the technology, which companies promise will revolutionize our lives, is driving something else just as high as stock prices: #EnergyConsumption [and #WaterConsumption].
"#AI #DataCenters use huge amounts of power and could increase energy demand by as much as 20% over the next decade, according to a Department of Energy spokesperson. Pair that with the continued growth of the broader cloud computing market, and you’ve got an energy squeeze.
"But Big Tech has also set ambitious sustainability goals focused on the use of low-carbon and zero-carbon sources to reduce its impact on climate change. While renewable energy like solar and wind are certainly part of that equation, tech companies need uninterruptible power sources. And for that, they’re leaning into #NuclearPower.
"Tech giants aren’t just planning to hook into existing plants, either. They’re working with energy companies to bring mothballed facilities like Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island back online and looking to build small modular reactors (#SMRs) that take up less space than traditional plants and, the hope is, are cheaper to construct.
"But there are still plenty of questions as to whether these investments in nuclear energy will ever pan out, not to mention how long it will take to build any new reactors."
Read more:
https://www.aol.com/finance/big-tech-going-nuclear-power-201418756.html#AI #NoNukesForAI #Cryptocurrency #WaterIsLife #NoNukes #RethinkNotRestart #ThreeMileIsland #TheTerminator #JudgmentDay #NuclearPowerNoThanks
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#ExxonLied before, #Exxon will lie again! REAL oversight is needed (not just revolving door lobbyist/government/corporate shill phonies)!
What do frontline communities want to know about lithium extraction? Identifying research areas to support environmental justice in Lithium Valley, California
Elsevier
Energy Research & Social Science
Volume 99, May 2023,Abstract:
"#CleanEnergy technologies provide global benefits through climate mitigation and many local #environmental benefits for consumers. However, the supply chains that produce them inevitably impose some environmental burden on the communities where they operate. To align with the principles of environmental justice, the burdens and benefits of clean energy supply chains should be distributed equitably, with decision-making processes that empower local communities to participate. Academic research can play a key role as a source of transparent information that addresses the concerns of frontline communities; however, this requires deliberate effort during the initial stages of research to understand what those concerns are and seek data that will respond to them. As a case study, this article analyzes public meetings about a developing lithium industry in Imperial, California, and reviews relevant literature to build a research agenda that is guided by the priorities of local stakeholders. We find that #WaterConsumption, public #health impacts, local employment, and opportunities to participate are high-priority topics for community members. We also compare the content of discussions across groups, finding that participants in community-focused meetings mainly asked about the local impacts of the process, whereas state-led discussions focused on the sustainability of direct lithium extraction (#DLE) compared to conventional production methods. To address the priorities of frontline communities, we recommend evaluating water consumption in the context of regional availability, including local air emissions and waste streams in sustainability analyses, and monitoring the impact on local employment over time to ensure the promises made during development accrue to communities."One promising alternative is direct lithium extraction (DLE), a method of separating lithium from brine through chemical processing rather than relying on the slower process of natural evaporation. DLE enables lithium recovery from lower-concentration sources of brine, including mineral-rich geothermal fluids that are already brought to the surface for energy production. DLE has a smaller physical and water footprint than status quo production methods and can use energy from onsite geothermal power plants, resulting in lower carbon emissions. However, DLE is an emerging technology, and most information about the process and its impact comes from the #industry rather than #peerreviewed literature or other independent sources."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629623001032
