[zekrioca]

Would you accept a datacenter to use your potable water and then release it for you to take a shower? Would you drink any kind of water [1]?

Electricity and water are today’s main issues, but there are many indirect others like noisy neighborhoods, pollutants from diesel generators, etc.

These infrastructures will start to use great portions of earth’s resources, saturating it to the point people will need to be making complex choices coming forward.

[1] https://youtu.be/9H8mbIp01sg

[ben_w]

Given I have no idea what the water is used for, I would defer to an expert.

If it goes through copper pipes, picks up heat, then leaves… my expectation is that this is fine, and I could drink it without further processing. Perhaps even insulate the pipes then it's a free source of pre-heated water and we can save energy.

If the exit pipes cross-connect with the staff sewage lines, then it needs full processing like any other waste water stream.

Without having someone actually look at the setup, I'm not going to know which it is, and there's likely a lot of other possible configurations besides those two.

[Lerc]

>Would you accept a datacenter to use your potable water and then release it for you to take a shower? Would you drink any kind of water

If it were deemed safe by experts in the field certainly. If if were deemed unsafe, certainly not.

That's all I'm asking for here, is for decisions and arguments based upon the actual impact, not by assumption that water or electricity supply is uniform and by implication, bad.