tabbycat@jillypaddock@mastodon.social
@cstross@wandering.shop If these data centres are producing vast amounts of hot water, couldn't they use that for something useful? Maybe for heating local homes or greenhouses for growing salad stuff in the winter?
Eric S. Smith@smiteri@mstdn.ca
@jillypaddock@mastodon.social @cstross@wandering.shop Indeed, whether a given data centre wastes water for cooling or not is site and implementation dependent. Is it draining an endangered aquifer and dumping it into the air? Is it a closed loop? Those seem to be the extremes, to me.