Not directly to this but water shortage in general;
Isn’t water shortage not just basically energy shortage since you can take nearly infinite water from the ocean and turn it into drinking water?
This always baffles me when people talk about water as if we can’t make any more. We can! We just won’t because it’s not economical.
The problem is that a lot of places, there is plenty of fresh water. However, when we start using a lot of fresh water (in this case for datacenters), then those supplies runs low.
Sure, we could spend a lot more money on making sea water drinkable or we could just use less water for purposes that are not as important / that could use sea water / that could use alternative ways of working. Also, not everyone is close an ocean and that would mean you have to transport the water over long distances - not impossible but it adds to the price tag.
Not directly to this but water shortage in general; Isn’t water shortage not just basically energy shortage since you can take nearly infinite water from the ocean and turn it into drinking water?
This always baffles me when people talk about water as if we can’t make any more. We can! We just won’t because it’s not economical.
The problem is that a lot of places, there is plenty of fresh water. However, when we start using a lot of fresh water (in this case for datacenters), then those supplies runs low.
Sure, we could spend a lot more money on making sea water drinkable or we could just use less water for purposes that are not as important / that could use sea water / that could use alternative ways of working. Also, not everyone is close an ocean and that would mean you have to transport the water over long distances - not impossible but it adds to the price tag.
I hate that damn price tag.