AI data center project sucked 29M gallons of water

_aavaa_1mo ago· 5 in thread

> the 29 million gallons were consumed during temporary construction activities, including concrete work, dust control, and site preparation

Misleading title

yifanl1mo ago

Is there a AI data center construction process that doesn't involve these costs?

_aavaa_1mo ago

Is there a large scale construction project that doesn’t incur these costs? Is the AI data center substantially worse on these metrics that other comparable projects? Or are we talking about it only because it’s AI-related?

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2ndorderthoughtOP1mo ago

I think it's important to know the total costs environmentally for these outfits

_aavaa_1mo ago

But what criteria do we use to judge whether these numbers are too high or too low? How do they compare to other construction projects of this size?

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sfmike1mo ago

The title doesn't mention a time horizon it states what was used which it was. This is not misleading.

isawczuk1mo ago

During the construction, not operating. In scale it's 44 Olympic pools.

ChrisArchitect1mo ago

[dupe] Discussion on source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48079333

ReptileMan1mo ago

So not much at all. Lets say enough for growing 4 tonnes of almonds.

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