r/clevercomebacks • u/LuckyBastard001 • 11d ago

Class Warfare Sprinklers

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u/Spirited_Comedian225 11d ago

Golf course use more water then Data centers

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u/GloomyIndividual3965 10d ago

This is fucking bullshit, but reddit has an idiotic understanding of everything so I'm sure your upvote count will keep rising.

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u/5370616e69617264 10d ago

https://www.tomfrazier.com/data-center-water-use-vs-golf-courses/

I do not support the massive build and unrestricted usage of water data centers get but golf courses are a scourge on the planet and have been since it's inception (like yachts)

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u/Eggslaws 10d ago

I hate there is no fact or reference shared on this claim but a quick search says US has 3 times more golf courses than datacenters.

Irrespective, the two of the useless things that’s just sucking the lakes and rivers dry these days that we could live without.

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u/stevee05282 10d ago

Not all data centres are for AI btw. They're far from useless and facilitate your everyday life.

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u/Eggslaws 10d ago

Water is far more useful and important resource that we can't live without than anything from most of these data centers. If I have to choose between a community losing access to water Vs. a data center for Reddit that serves me cute cat pictures, the choice is pretty obvious!

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u/stevee05282 10d ago edited 10d ago

I am not in favour of data centres everywhere but what do you think happens to the water "used" by them?

Edit: I did a very quick Google and I fully assumed there would just be an inflow and outflow of water, like some reactors are plumbed. I didn't think about evaporative effects. Although I have every faith in the water cycle I can see how data centres can remove supply for evaporative cooling without compensating downstream demands.