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Sus. This is a huge topic for data centers right now. I think if they did use the lake there are environmental concerns with pumping heated water back into the lake.
IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.
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I was at a town meeting of sorts when I originally posted. Supposedly it's going to be 50k gallons of water and the heat exchange is just going to be food grade glycol. The system needs to be charged with water from...somewhere, but after that, requires little water.
Ironically, trying to decide which side to support feels like buying computer parts. I can struggle over every little detail like noise, light, electricity costs, environmental impact, tax benefits(both ways), job creation but I won't actually know until after the fact. Multiple people asked for various forms of promises or commitments on those things, but I wouldn't trust anything that wasn't legally binding. And even then, I don't trust the US's legal system and government wrt properly punishing bad acting corporations.
And I can't shake the feeling like this would be supporting disingenuous AI bullshit. Where's Copilot gonna install itself next because an AI datacenter was built in my town!?!?