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MylesRyden

@marnanel @anne_twain @gerrymcgovern

I am going to guess that their competitors already have a pretty good idea of the amount of water and electricity that Google is using. They have similar set ups, so the only variable is the actual volume of data traffic (which I understand is what they are trying to hide). But surely Meta and Amazon have pretty good estimates of how much data Google is moving.

16 April at 13:21 | Open on social.vivaldi.net
Gerry McGovern

@MylesRyden
I think that would be a very good guess. Of course, the competitors know. It's not about them. It's about keeping the public ignorant because when you dig deep into data centers, you find that they are really terrible for a local community. A community becomes a sacrifice zone for the data center.

@marnanel @anne_twain

16 April at 13:26 | Open on mastodon.green
MylesRyden

@gerrymcgovern @marnanel @anne_twain

Agreed 100%.

BigTech is also depending on the misperception on the part of the general public that Data Centers are totally benign -- just taking the computers that would be found in the average office building and putting them in a warehouse, right?

BigTech does not want the public to know the actual amount of resources that are actually being consumed by their "clean" industry.

16 April at 13:33 | Open on social.vivaldi.net
marnanel
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