two high-capacity water connections were not being properly monitored. One had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and another was not tied to a billing account.
Yeah, you don’t just “accidentally” install an “extra” water pipeline like that.
Who tf got paid under the table.
Funny story there.
I once moved in to a property development where the development collectively paid for water access.
The water was turned on for the developers during construction, but when construction was finished, the city closed the account without remembering to transfer to the strata. So the strata went for almost 10 years without paying beyond the base rate for water, before someone investigated. At that point, the city only back-dated the water use bill to the start of the year, thankfully for the homeowners.
So yeah, it happens, probably pretty regularly.
I just bought a house which has a pump and water line for garden hoses and irrigation
I have no idea where the water is coming from
The house has a well, but the irrigation system is completely separate and has a pipe running somewhere that I have no idea about.
You could flip the breaker off for the well to find out.
Once there’s no more pressure from the well, if the irrigation system keeps pressure, you know wherever that water comes from, it’s not your hole.
Honestly question though …
Does a data centre actually pollute or dirty the water when used to cool it’s stuff?
Could it not just take the water, run it through the system, heat the water a little bit to cool the stuff it needs, then run the water back into the city lines which might even save people a few cents on the water heating bills?
I was wondering the same thing. Turns out thermal pollution is a thing. They would heat a lake at that rate.
There are ways to cool water and recycle it. If they are using that much water, I bet they cannot cycle water because it wouldn’t cool fast enough.
heat the water a little bit to cool the stuff it needs
No. Heating the water a little bit would not be sufficient at cooling what the datacenters need to cool. You have to heat the water a whole hell of a lot.
Well, yes it wouldn’t heat it a “little bit” at the source but once added back into the system the average increase would probably be a “little bit”.
This could have been amazing if integrated into a district heating network.
$147,474 / 29,000,000 gal = $0.0051 / gal
A homeowner in Fayetteville GA would probably be paying anywhere from $30-$80 or so per month, but they certainly aren’t getting nearly as much water per dollar as this data center.
Got to keep these servers cool so elon can have grok generate porn…
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