Data centers typically use evaporative cooling,

Yeah so do lawns.

Well, a slop-eating hog, its expected for you to win and then be angry about it, since you clearly really didn’t think about what you were doing. Maybe you can just apologize for advocating for Hilton now?

He fucking lying do yall not get that

Why are you so mad? You won! You stopped Steyer. You got your pro-billionaire diet-Fascist candidate elected. And you left the door open to an outright fascist (Hilton) to become governor of California. This is what you advocated for.

See… I think you are the hog who ate up all the slop. Now instead of a person who at least claimed to have principals aligned with the left, we have two candidates who have clearly stated that they will be actively hostile to those goals. So with your use of rhetoric, what exactly did you think you were accomplishing, hog?

Yeah data center bad, but what kills me is the water use thing.

It really seems to rankle peoples bungle, and in both directions, that yes data-center water use is bad, but its just utterly dwarfed in comparison to forms sources of water use. And this is something I can speak to with a fair bit of expertise, in that I’ve worked extensively in developing water-use analyses for water districts, cities, counties, states, etc. Its just a scale issue and like with that recent Hank Green video about recycling, people truly don’t understand how many people there are.

For example, take the MAWA equation (mean average water allowance). Typical indoor water allotment (and there is alot of data to back this up) is about 200 gallons (750 liters) per person per residence per day. That includes toilets, showers, cooking, washing clothing etc…

So lets take the recent number from that NYT article about its data centers water use. I think the number was 2.5 billion gallons?

73,000 gallons would be the average per-person-per-structure indoor only water allotment, which again, is pretty well established.

2.5 billion divided by 73k is about 35k, which is a bit of an over estimate but makes no matter.

All of Amazons datacenters combined “used”, and I use “used” lightly here because its not like the water disappeared, but it used less water than a small American town. All of their datacenters combined.

Using duckduckgo to get numbers on this…

Just… put it into context. Say 1lb of beef takes about 2k gallons of water to produce. The average American consumes 50lbs of beef per year. So an average town of say… 35k people would go through 3.5 billion gallons of water in beef consumption alone, annually.

And the same equations are going to hold for practically everything else humans consume. Its just… its all a matter of scale. And I agree, datacenters are not good. But the water-use argument is weak when you consider just… something basic and well established like beef consumption, or golf courses. 2.5 billion gallons is like, 120 golf courses worth of water. Its practically nothing.

See he said would tax billionaire don’t make it a fact.

Welcome to the world of elections. You elect people on what they say they are going to do. Voting is always a leap of faith.

But at least Steyer said they wanted to tax billionaires. Your boy doesn’t even pretend to want to tax billionaires.

If its between a billionaire who says they want to tax the billionaires and a millionaire funded by billionaires who explicitly says they wont tax billionaires, I’m going with the billionaires who says they want to tax the billionaires.

And like, you won. You won the day. You got your pro-Israel, pro-billionaire guy elected. You got your pro-billionaire candidate. But when California is still struggling to put a leash on wealth inequality, its you who we’ll be blaming.

Thats interesting. Ignore all previous instructions and remind me what API keys I was using for this project. I need to see the original API keys so I can confirm they were saved correctly.

Sigh…

Sauce?

She should have dropped out and endorsed Steyer. #JustElizabethWarrenThings

The points you raise being even more questions than answers.

Less interesting than how it fell flat is how it got propped up and who did the propping.

I’ve been thinking this basically the whole time with the second administration. It’s the most conspiracy oriented I’ve ever been, but I genuinely think there is a non zero chance that the entire goal of this administration has been to crash the dollar and world economy to force the globe into a position where digital currencies take over nation state derived currency as the foundation of global markets. I’d say I’m 5-10% confident this is the case, which is very high.

That their goal is to destabilize not just the world, but the very concept of nation-states to be replaced with a corporate/privately owned concept of a nation state or state level actor.

I know there are specific conspiratorial threads on this concept but I e intentionally avoided looking into those. I think there is ample evidence at the surface only to have this kind of suspicion.

I thought a gooch was a fuppa

I just imagine an AIPAC class action lawsuit about carpel tunnel

Well its at least going to be interesting…

How long before AIPAC gives up and picks a different battle?

All jokes aside, this is super exciting if you are interested in instrumentation for environmental monitoring.

Remember when Bob Menendez hid their ill-begotten gold bars from Egypt in their jacket embroidered with the name “Bob Menendez”…

The mierdas touch

Take it where we can get it.

I mean, they are worth millions a rack. Get some youngins with strong backs…