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"

https://dailycaller.com/2026/05/11/project-excalibur-data-center-quality-technology-services-blackstone-29-million-gallons-water-fayetteville-georgia/

@VeroniqueB99 Reckon what would happen if that water supply just got *turned off*? Fried data centre? Even just dead would be good, millions of gallons of precious water saved...
@stonebear2 IKR?! Have the same question... I'm guessing the whole thing explodes.
@VeroniqueB99 more like melts down or just _shuts_ down... most systems these days if you overtemp'em they just *stop*... but that's the consumer-grade ones, IDK what the AI bros are using...

@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.

@dryak @stonebear2

I'm liking the visual... 🤣 👍

@dryak @VeroniqueB99 get out your weiners and marshmallows, kids, it's DATACENTRE FLAMBÉ...