Post #3981338
2026-07-21 08:30 UTC
Replies (7)
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@hzulla@infosec.exchange 2026-07-21 08:41
Another fun thing is remembering how the people who complained about EVs and heat pumps being an unreasonable burden on the grid's infrastructure are now the very same people betting on an obviously unrealistic goal of data center buildout FOMO that overwhelms both the local grid and the local water supply and will leave us with stranded assets of never completed or abandoned data center ruins.
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@flyingpenguin@infosec.exchange 2026-07-21 08:47
@hzulla@infosec.exchange my concern is that the lack of water is the plan. Trump and Putin are looking for foreign "migration hubs" to deport over 10 million people from America alone. These datacenter plans can pivot instantly to camps of forced deportation victims. That turns the no water, no energy into a feature.
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@pedramardakani@fosstodon.org 2026-07-21 09:12
@hzulla@infosec.exchange Ah, just learned how one can bypass the paywall. One method is using web archives. Now I can actully read the article: https://archive.ph/s1Aic
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@zed@mstdn.party 2026-07-21 10:01
@hzulla@infosec.exchange there’d be enough water if all the humans stop drinking it all !
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@tante@tldr.nettime.org 2026-07-21 08:36
@hzulla@infosec.exchange It's an interesting numbers game. Because you can calcultae the water usage in a way that it looks somewhat small, but a datacenter uses water _extremely locally_ which overloads supply
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@knud@mastodon.social 2026-07-21 08:40
@hzulla@infosec.exchange And can we please also talk about electricity use? The fallout is catastrophic.
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@petealexharris@mastodon.scot 2026-07-21 08:42
@hzulla@infosec.exchange Pass legislation to cap their usage *hard* at the level they say it will need on the planning request. Watch the planning requests get withdrawn, for totally unrelated reasons of course.