China has a very different climate and landmass. The reason these companies keep trying to make datacenters in places where they’ll use all the water the residents need to survive, is because those places are the cheapest to build and opperate. Land in the desert is dirt-cheap (lol). China doesn’t have to build in the desert to build on cheap land, and so can build pretty much whereever they feel like it, including where water and electricity isn’t an issue.
Also, they’ve shown before that they don’t really have to give a shit about the lives of local residents. They probably (maybe) don’t want them to die, but relocation is always an option.
In the end we probably don’t know wether people are pissed about it or not, since we don’t get a lot of news from rural China.
China does build datacenters in desert next to solar farms. Water access is overblown, because it can use a closed loop system where water is trucked in from somewhere it is more abundant. Cooling in desert is more expensive, but China has abundant cheap power. It is unfair to say the US is only place that cares about it’s people, when it is the most corrupt country in history that cares the least about popular welfare. China’s drive for abundance is a populist drive. US scarcity profit maximizing mindset is the opposite.
I never meant to say USA cares about it’s people, but it needs to have a sizable portion of the people at least think it does.
Most corrupt country in history though. I will absolutely need to see some source for that claim. Yes they’re a bunch of corrupt pieces of shit, but thinking they’re more corrupt than every monarchy throughout the ages? Were the ancient eqgyptians less corrupt? Or how about the current government of the Republic of Congo? Are we sure the current US administration is more corrupt than all of those? I’m not convinced.
Also, they’ve shown before that they don’t really have to give a shit about the lives of local residents. They probably (maybe) don’t want them to die, but relocation is always an option.
Learn US history a little. Read about the flooding of the Ozarks and hundreds of other regions of the US to build power dams.
China has a very different climate and landmass. The reason these companies keep trying to make datacenters in places where they’ll use all the water the residents need to survive, is because those places are the cheapest to build and opperate. Land in the desert is dirt-cheap (lol). China doesn’t have to build in the desert to build on cheap land, and so can build pretty much whereever they feel like it, including where water and electricity isn’t an issue.
Also, they’ve shown before that they don’t really have to give a shit about the lives of local residents. They probably (maybe) don’t want them to die, but relocation is always an option.
In the end we probably don’t know wether people are pissed about it or not, since we don’t get a lot of news from rural China.
China does build datacenters in desert next to solar farms. Water access is overblown, because it can use a closed loop system where water is trucked in from somewhere it is more abundant. Cooling in desert is more expensive, but China has abundant cheap power. It is unfair to say the US is only place that cares about it’s people, when it is the most corrupt country in history that cares the least about popular welfare. China’s drive for abundance is a populist drive. US scarcity profit maximizing mindset is the opposite.
I never meant to say USA cares about it’s people, but it needs to have a sizable portion of the people at least think it does.
Most corrupt country in history though. I will absolutely need to see some source for that claim. Yes they’re a bunch of corrupt pieces of shit, but thinking they’re more corrupt than every monarchy throughout the ages? Were the ancient eqgyptians less corrupt? Or how about the current government of the Republic of Congo? Are we sure the current US administration is more corrupt than all of those? I’m not convinced.
Yeah it just had me thinking. Thank you.
Learn US history a little. Read about the flooding of the Ozarks and hundreds of other regions of the US to build power dams.
And now there are a lot of laws to prevent it.