• Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 days ago

    Also the energy for those datacenters has to come from somewhere and non-renewable options (gas, oil, nuclear generation) also use a lot of water as part of the generation process itself (they all relly using the fuel to generate the steam to power turbines which generate the electricity) and for cooling.

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      2 hours ago

      nuclear isn’t that bad ngl France uses a ton of it

      and the wastewater that nuclear power plants make, its barely radioactive at all

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      9 days ago

      steam that runs turbines tends to be recirculated. that’s already in the paper.