#LabourIsForThePeople

One cup of tea in the morning and one in the evening should be enough.

There's already hosepipe bans

This is Britain we're talking about. The UK notoriously makes awful decisions all the time. They'll go ahead.

What are you talking about, plebe? No more showers for you!

Or you can cool them using raw seawater since year around it's cold AF and is well below the minimum temp needed. It's just cheaper and less permits to use drinking water in evaporative coolers... And that's besides the point too, since do we really need more AI datacenters when there isn't a silver bullet use case? It's been 5 years and there's still no killer app for AI, just vague hand waving at certain jobs (which also quietly rehire their staff months later for some odd reason)

Plebs don’t need luxuries.

It's also important people understand it's the same as "the cloud".

That's how the rollout started: "why pay for a hard drive when you can have it anywhere"?

Too many people fell for that, so the corps bought up all the hard drives, now storage is more expensive than when "the cloud" rolled out

They're using startup accounting against us, they'll buy up all the storage/compute power so consumers have no option but to go thru them.

The only way to win is wide scale boycotts till their investors give up. Don't use anything you don't own to store data.

Because it is cheap and government pay for infrastructure and maintenance. If these company would have to pay for the public goods they use none would be profitable.

Better solutions have always and will always exist, but they cost more to implement.

Piping grey water to a data center either means placing it somewhere with an appropriate pipe with appropriate filtration performed, or building a new pipe/filtration. Drinking water in comparison is easily accessible anywhere. They don’t care about the impact or even the per unit cost, they just want to build on the cheap and take advantage of local infrastructure, and they figure in this ai boom the actual running costs are irrelevant because ai companies will pay for anything that works, efficiency be damned

That would cost too much money for the poor companies.

Big data centres can't dissipate the amount of heat they generate without evaporating water, so a ban like that would effectively be a ban on that kind of data centre. Obviously, the companies lobbying for data centres to get built wouldn't be happy about that.