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Google’s water use is soaring in The Dalles, records show www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2022/12/googles-water-use-is-soaring-in-the-dalles-records-show-with-two-more-data-centers-to-come.html

11 sats \ 3 comments \ @slatheredloss 26 Dec 2022 bitcoin

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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Eximpius 26 Dec 2022

I was a Googler at a Google data center for 6 years. I actually traveled to the Dalles data center a few times. They also just tapped into the main water aquifer in the Southeast under the South Carolina Data center back in 2019. This auqafir is under SC, GA, LA, AL, NC. There was a big dispute but they ended up letting them do it.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Eximpius 26 Dec 2022

Btw, data-centers are an excellent come back to people that say “Bitcoin uses to much energy”. When i was at Google and the main data center I was at hit 1.21 Gigawatts(back to the future), they gave out little celebration swag that was solid copper saying 1.21gigawatts. That was in 2016 and only 3 buildings not even full yet. This data center has 7 buildings now. Each data center has there own huge substations as well, directly connected to the power plant. The amount of electricity Google uses across all of its data centers is astronomical.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @01xCc 26 Dec 2022

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