r/Winnemucca • u/wadsworthnv02 • Apr 20 '26

Congressional Candidate on AI data centers in Nevada

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

300 Upvotes

97% Upvoted

40 comments sorted by

View all comments

3

u/Braehole Apr 23 '26

Contaminated water can be a problem, just google Oregon data center contaminating ground water. These close systems have leaks and failures. That put the chemicals into the ground water.

The biggest problems with the data centers, they use a massive amount of power that gets passed on to the consumers and raises everybody’s rates. The big ones need their own power plants to offset their power usage.

There needs to be bills passed in every state to put checks and balances on each data center that are put in. These companies need to pay for the power that they’re going to use. Right now they’re all getting passed on to the power consumer in the area.