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magicarpet

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4. ... While sucking up huge amounts of water for cooling their equipment and electric power to keep their,...
Sat Apr 18, 2026, 11:37 AM
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... data centers operational. While driving up the cost of kilowatt hours of homeowners monthly electric bills. It should be mandated by congress that these monster Artificial Intelligence data centers be powered by solar electric energy only. Maybe build these data center out in the desert. Then build sea water desalination plants at the coast then pipe the water inland for their data equipment cooling needs. Giving the spent cooling water to agricultural operations thus recycling this water resource.

It is the same old story of these rich bastards who own these massive data centers - skewed fascistic capitalism ...

SOCIALIZE the costs of their business operations,... but PRIVATIZE the profits derived - for self enrichment to themselves alone.

Fuck this shit. Enough already.

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