@asklemmy@lemmy.world @asklemmy@lemmy.ml what are the likely impacts of datacenters on water and on energy supply ? Can someone please enlighten me on this ?

#datacenter #water #energy #environment

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[–] 5 points 9 hours ago (1 child)

This is spot on. The big question is how to pay for the additional generation and distribution capacity. Typically this demand grows slowly and is amortized over decades. Data center demand is coming very rapidly all at once and there is no guarantee these companies will even exist 5-10 years from now. All that said, if tech companies pay for improvements to generation and distribution that would be something everyone would benefit from.

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