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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com

Lutnick: "Data centers don't use water. This is propaganda by our adversaries to try to slow us down." (Note the complete lack of pushback from the hosts of Squawk Box, which is basically Fox & Friends lite)

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fabio
@fabiogcalzada.bsky.social

Forget pushback, it is the complete and utter lack of facts, the real ones, or honest information and reporting, in American MSM what has been disturbing since 2015.

bonacker.bsky.social
@bonacker.bsky.social

Data centers use water primarily for cooling to prevent servers, processors (CPUs/GPUs), and electrical infrastructure from overheating. Because thousands of dense computer racks generate intense heat, constant thermal management is required. DUH!

smitherbeans.bsky.social
@smitherbeans.bsky.social

They're water cooled. I work in a data center. They pull in water to exchange heat from whatever coolant is being used. They physically cannot function without water unless they're air cooled. Water is better at taking away the heat, so they use liquid cooling.

bigt383.bsky.social
@bigt383.bsky.social

The older ones use evaporative cooling, where the water cannot be reused. Similar to many power plants. However it’s completely possible to use closed-loop cooling, and most new data center designs do use this method, which does not waste water for cooling. This is an argument for regulation.

smitherbeans.bsky.social
@smitherbeans.bsky.social

It's not about "wasting" the water, as it is not taking the water in and not releasing it. The problem is consuming that vast quantity of water rips all the water pressure away from homes. There is nothing left for the communities.

Forge
@forgettv.bsky.social

CNBC has long been traitors from Fox news advertising arm, a never ending parade of Repubs and mega rich lying to the public with 0 pushback. They all need to dangle from the same gibbet.

Kevin Mc
@kevinmac27.bsky.social

Data centers in the US are predicted by 2028 to use around 50,000,000,000 gallons of water per annum. And that is just the DIRECT usage. The extra power used to power the data centers will use far more. How tf can he get away with saying that?

JokersWild
@jokersrwild.bsky.social

Good news Howard - there is enough room to build a datacenter right next to your home in Bridgehampton, NY. I'm sure you won't have a problem with that, since you don't want Bridgehampton to become "backward and poor", right?

Bot Scolgiano
@botscolgiano.bsky.social

Flat out lie. At this point in history, water is used to cool these server farms, and some require huge amounts, similar to the water usage of a small town. Nutlick lies again, because it’s a day that ends in Y.

Thistle Hill
@feathersonthewind.bsky.social

The range varies from none to enough for a small city, he’s lying, making light of a very serious question about whether the government will allow data centers to choose the designs that take the water from whole towns and go unpunished. It’s deadly serious

web_rant
@webrant.bsky.social

90% of data centers primarily use water-based cooling. Data centers obtain water from municipal groundwater wells or directly from aquifers. Heavy pumping can lower groundwater levels, particularly in drought-prone or heavily developed regions. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Lutnick: "Data centers don't use water. This is propaganda by our adversaries to try to slow us down." (Note the complete lack of pushback from the hosts of Squawk Box, which is basically Fox & Friends lite)

Mr T
@mrtmdc.bsky.social

Data centers built for AI have to be water cooled as nothing else is capable or dissipating the heat they generate. This isn’t a topic of debate this is a simple fact of computing hardware. Already acknowledged by the industry and already causing problems for water consumers.

mactakeshi.bsky.social
@mactakeshi.bsky.social

They use water. Rhe water they use has to be cleaner than potable drinking water. So I assume the data centres have to make a water processing plant to clean the clean water. It also states that EV car manufacturers use the same amount of water annually as a data centre.

Cath RN, PhD
@headdoc35.bsky.social

Nutlick plays the dunce- or maybe he’s a dunce. From what I’ve been seeing, capitalist billionaires seem dumb af. Anyway, many data centers rely on water-intensive cooling systems. They use millions of gallons of potable H2O a yr. 1 data center can use up to 5 million gallons of drinking H2O a day.

Jan
@countrygal.bsky.social

So the millions of gallons of water used by data centers is just a figment of our imagination? No wonder he's spewing on cnbc The information is readily available on line.

Jonny Untel
@vieuxhipster.bsky.social

One of the first implementation of water use counters was to counter the abysmal use of water by cold room warehouses everywhere in America who were using running water to cool down rooms. Is this nuts or what.

bluebirdone.bsky.social
@bluebirdone.bsky.social

I can eat a cow, if I choose, I can milk the cow. What do data centers do for humans? Except use our limited water resources and make our energy costs increase? These make billionaires more money and don’t provide the jobs to justify the damage they do.

Mark Carruthers
@markc-289.bsky.social

Is Lutnick really that uninformed or ignorant about data centres that he would say they don’t use water, or is he simply lying about it? Certainly him saying they don’t use water is not true.

Local Resister
@projectspacetime.bsky.social

This latest is called propaganda. Now, all of MAGA is going to be in a quandary. You see, they 'know' DCs use it but the frame/message from their propaganda has now reinforced that that's false. MAGA doesn't think for themselves. They'll follow the lie until they expire.

Kerberus
@kerberus-1.bsky.social

Isn't that noise pollution? Or at minimum against some neighborhood noise ordinance? If i were to park on that street and jam my car's stereo system at the same level, wouldn't someone come and give me a ticket and make me leave?

tree-bee
@tree-bee-501.bsky.social

“slow us down”? us?!? thats a tell he owns stock in DCs “Lutnick: "Data centers don't use water. This is propaganda by our adversaries to try to slow us down." (Note the complete lack of pushback from the hosts of Squawk Box, which is basically Fox & Friends lite)”

chitobandito.bsky.social
@chitobandito.bsky.social

The STAMP data center in Alabama, NY, plans to use 20k gallons of water per day, piped 30 miles from the Niagara River through Iroquois Wildlife Refuge, then dumped into Oak Orchard Creek. So when Lutnick says they "don't use water," he means they just borrow it, heat it, and give it back?

Hedy Lamarr
@chudonew.bsky.social

Data centers consume millions of gallons of water daily for on-site cooling and indirectly through the massive amounts of electricity required to power their servers. fieldreport.caes.uga.edu/publications...

fieldreport.caes.uga.eduUnderstanding How Data Centers Impact Surface and Ground Waters | CAES Field ReportThis resource addresses some general concerns and questions about how data center operations could alter water availability and affect the quality of our shared surface water, underground water, and p...
Bellinda
@belnot.bsky.social

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Purple Haze
@vmg-ylw.bsky.social

False. Data centres consume significant amounts of water, primarily for cooling server equipment and generating electricity. Howard — GFY you slimy little greaseball.