In a closed loop cooling system for a water cooled PC you use distilled water to prevent things growing in it which would require the system to be purged and cleaned and refilled. Which would use more water. So for cooling a data center I’m sure it’s a similar deal.

They can probably use grey water for the construction (which is where the 29 million gallons of water were used in this instance), so I don’t know why they didn’t other than the sheer amount of water needed and whether or not grey water was available to be used.

The problem is that’s not what happened here. This data center is under construction. It’s not operational yet. So the construction used this water over a period of months for dust control and mixing concrete and so on and weren’t billed for it.

Also, the way data centers are supposed to use cooling is something called a closed loop. It’s similar to what you have in your vehicle. Or a liquid cooling setup in a computer. So the water isn’t supposed to go back into the cities water table or their treatment system.

The water from the construction will do that but it is no longer potable so it has to be retreated to be safe to drink etc.

So did I until I had to go through the whole process. I recommend it if for no other reason than it’s easier in the long run than keeping your credit locked/frozen forever.

The chances are the places that would be most at risk (and have a risk profile that would warrant that kind of paranoia) are already taking measures to circumvent this.

I think you have a typo. But I agree.

Once again. I don’t owe you an explanation for what I’m doing and I’m certainly not going to give you one now that you’ve gone through the trouble to harass me over it. Get lost. Seriously.

Weird that you need me to provide solutions to you.

I don’t know whether this is some weird purity test or if you’re just looking to copy my homework and either way I don’t care.

You’re not a good person. You’re actively creating a hostile environment for the purposes of trolling at this point.

Go away.

Lol. My dude. Quit projecting. You don’t know me. You don’t know anything about what I do and don’t do. You made an assumption based on misplaced vibes and now you’re doubling down.

Which is hilarious because that kind of vibe based nonsense is exactly what I’m sure you would accuse your political opposites of doing.

Do me a favor and get lost. I’m not interested in whatever nonsense you’re spewing since you’re not here to provide solutions.

Make credible suggesting or GTFO.

I didn’t ask.

But since you’re wanting to give people directions, maybe start off with that in a place and time where it’s appropriate. Instead of assuming that someone who doesn’t owe you this information must not know and must be talked down to.

You come off as an asshole. Just thought you ought to know.

It costs you nothing to make suggestions about what people can do.

Instead you’re here to smugly try to gotcha randos on the internet for your own self righteous hate fetish. You can miss me with that entirely.

Yeah. The thing about new phone numbers these days is they are generally reused numbers someone else didn’t want. So you’ll still get the same spam calls, they just won’t necessarily be addressed to you.

I take it you have a list of things we could be doing that you’d like to share with the class?

Are you asking for tips?

I don’t think that’s the point they are making. What they are saying is this type of crime is becoming more successful with the help of AI, not that the perpetrator couldn’t have done it without AI.

Same as with phone scams. They are becoming more successful all the time with the help of AI because of its ability to emulate human conversation, voice match, etc.

I don’t want to buy anything with his face on it because I’m tired of seeing him everywhere. But thanks for the heads up.

Tell me you don’t understand anything about propaganda and it’s role in war without telling me.

While I am curious about where the parents were, I also recognize that even if they knew their kid was playing video games with randoms on the internet, it’s still unlikely that the parents would have the skills to differentiate the other kids on the server playing from the random adult with nefarious intentions.

This seems like a failing of parents to use parental controls and also make themselves aware of the dangers and safeguards altogether.

I suspect the parents were working. A lot of poor parents often are working when their kids get involved in things they shouldn’t.

Now this is a sticker I want. Gonna start slapping this puppy on gas pumps over the stupid “I did that!” Biden stickers.

How many times do they need to be grifted for them to learn?

Funny that they waited to raise the price until after the tariffs were decided to be illegal.

I was able to change my SSN but it was a process to say the least. The federal government leaked my info and the info of 21.5 million other military members and government employees in 2015. Combined with everything else that’s out there from other data breaches it was basically the only thing I could do that didn’t involve changing my name or buying a new Identity.