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  • How can locations be labeled secret (for 29 data centers)? Aren't there hearings or filings for proposed data centers?
    by rpaik
  • Some of these are just office buildings with multiple companies. Are we really calling a rented space with servers a data center now?
    by mohamedkoubaa
  • Now do dairy operations…

    One of the heaviest water consumers and a massive user of land (especially when considering the land needed to grow feed). And data centers aren’t creating lagoons of shit.

    And that’s even before you get to the moral atrocity of dairy.

    by adjejmxbdjdn
  • My takeaway from this is apparently you can build a datacenter in a place where the weather reaches 110 degrees in the summer. AC has come a long way. I wonder what cost feasability of building essentially a biodome that is actively climate controlled that spans an entire town or city.
    by ActorNightly
  • I predict "data centers" are going to start being built but they'll say it's a distribution warehouse for motorcycle parts or a factory or something. There'll be a token amount of floor space set aside to manufacture pen cartridges but then there'll just be an incidental 200000 sq ft of server racks.

    Actually I'm sure they're already doing that.

    by evan_
  • One question I've got is why Texas? It gets very warm there and DCs need cooling. Wouldn't like Wisconsin or Minnesota or Michian be cheaper. I mean Michigan's whole schtick is land of 1000 lakes, and that's not even considering Alaska which is massive, unpeopled, and colder than a nun's ruler?

    I'm not saying for or against, I'm just curious why they are choosing Texas?

    by gustavus
  • And here's a map of major water users in Texas: https://golfcoursebrowser.com/
    by xnx
  • This is just a rehash of the map already available at datacentermap.com (it’s literally cited as their source). Not sure what KXAN is adding here.

    Also worth noting that a very loose definition of data center is used here that doesn’t fit the current colloquial usage of the term. One of the “data centers” listed in the middle of Austin, for example, is barely the size of a house and is actually just the switching infrastructure for a radio tower. Not every dot on this map is an energy-guzzling hyperscaler boogie man.

    by cobolcomesback

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