I REALLY hate having to defend Big Tech because they are the scumbags who censored ANYTHING that ran counter to the Covid narrative back in 2020 and 2021. Shitlibs like Clayton Tucker and Potato Head Stephanie Fitzharris LOVED Big Tech back then because they silenced the truth about the cold germ, masks, Ivermectin and all the rest. They called it “disinformation.” Ironically, it all turned out to be true – leading Potato Head to harm herself injecting shitpoison into her arm.
[Clayton the unemployed socialist bum ALSO watches YouTube non-stop, owns an iMac, iPhone, uses Apple Pay and walks around with Apple earbuds in 90% of the time. So to hear him bitch about “Big Tech” is quite hilarious.]
But I cannot sit by and watch alarmist bullshit (with zero links, as usual) posted without details…
As usual, there is no link to the article. When you dig into it, you find out how the alarmist headline is actually quite benign:
#1 – this “study” is from almost a year ago.
#2 – they never name any cities where anyone was asked to take shorter showers. They give ZERO examples and offer ZERO proof. It didn’t happen. If it did, it was because of general drought conditions – the same stuff that has been happening in Texas LONG before the first data center was built.
#3 – the article implies it is ALL data centers – notice it doesn’t say “AI data centers” but “data centers across Central Texas”:
#4 – that scary-sounding 463 million gallons is over two years. That works out to about 600,000 gallons per day. That is for “data centers across Central Texas.”
#5 – for comparison, JUST the City of Austin loses 25.5 MILLION gallons (50x more) to leaky pipes every single DAY.
#6 – ALSO for comparison, about 10 million gallons of water fell from the sky onto JUST my property in JUST the last 22 days.
As I have stated before, the average asshole probably uses a data center over 50 times per day. Internet, Netflix, GPS in the car, Amazon shopping, debit cards, Apple Pay, Waymo cars, credit card purchases, every single thing you read on the Internet, etc.
To watch moron shitlibs like Clayton Tucker (who spends his entire life on-line and has over 15 social media sites posting gay videos) demand data centers be shut down when their ENTIRE lives depend on them is absolutely hilarious to me.
Clayton Tucker is too old to be this stupid. So is Potato Head.
Oh – and they even ADMIT that data centers use LESS THAN 1% of the state’s water. FAR less than golf courses, cotton farming, steel production, etc.