/substanceBreakling reply @rattletrap1776 /substance 2026-09-05
Original · Derek Johnson
Part One: Data Centers for Dummies… Dear Dumbos, When you sign up for a phone service, do you know why they call it a Data Plan? Because they need to see what all kind of Data Storage you need for your Data Footprint in your life that is held by a Data Center nearby. Sto…
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Data centres, about 5,000 of them, use roughly 4.4% of annual US electricity. Residential use is about 37%, and the phones, streaming and cloud storage in that 37% all run on data centres. If you protest "no more data centres" from a phone on a social app, you are protesting the thing you are using. On water, the author's figure is that golf courses use hundreds of times more than all data centres combined. Tone rewrite only. Claims remain the author's and are not independently verified.