This is for all the AI worshippers...
"A data center campus in Georgia consumed more than 29 M gallons of water without the local utility company realizing it, triggering low-pressure water flow to its host community
The data center campus, codenamed “Project Excalibur,” was found to have one water connection installed without the knowledge of the Fayette County water system, and another that was not linked to its developer’s account and therefore was not being billed"
@adipoeserPursch @VeroniqueB99
Cut them off. At any price. No water. From any municipality.
@VeroniqueB99 Time to turn off the tap on AI.
Odd that the Daily Caller would run this. They have sure fawned over Trump in the past
@stonebear2 @VeroniqueB99 Litteraly happen to our HPC some time ago(*): the whole data centre starts over heating, then safety trips and nodes gets shutdown in an uncoordinated brown-out.
(*: because of a isolated powerloss in the pumping system, without engaging backup, while the cluster isn't powered by backup).
In our science cluster, it merely was a mess to restart.
In badly designed/hastily built AI data centres, the servers cook themselves, hw is damaged.
I'm liking the visual... 🤣 👍
The average citizen can in similar places add water to Trump's screw over the citizens list. That's not just drinking water. It is washing clothes, bathing, sewage, gardening, animal care and farming. A hot dry summer makes it easy to think about what can happen. Add that to the current cost of living increase the GOP avoids like the plague.
And the utility had the nerve to ask their customers to conserve water.
Pay no attention to their boards bank accounts.
Excalibur? Seriously? It’s like in the movies where the villain has to tell you his plans.
@VeroniqueB99 On one hand, I don't think that data center is operating yet. This is about water use during construction, not about that used cooling megacities of GPUs.
On the other, even setting aside the theft, it's appalling and insensitive during a statewide drought and a local water shortage to draw so much that residents' water pressure drops enough to notice.
And the construction is scheduled to continue for another six years.
This would be just as big a deal were it a giant office park or Amazon warehouse. That it is meant eventually to host zillions of bullshit-generating computers is kind of a sideshow.
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