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"
@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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Norman Wilson