What Are the Real Side Effects of Living Near Data Centers?

[00:00:00]Let's get to some clarity on the water issue and on nature. What truth do we know and what information is out there about how data centers actually use water and what effects that they have on nature?

[00:00:14]Like do we have What information do we really have?

[00:00:17]>> Well, it's the amount of water that it takes to cool the data center. So, if it's a smaller data center, it could be 5 million gallons of water a day.

[00:00:27]>> baby center, bro.

[00:00:28]>> Right, but if it's a big data center, you could be talking 30 million gallons of water. Millions and millions of gallons of water because >> gallons a day?

[00:00:38]>> they have to use a day >> A day?

[00:00:40]>> to cool Yeah.

[00:00:41]>> Let's see this. A typical medium-sized data center consumes about 100 million gallons of water annually. That's medium-sized.

[00:00:49]Uh roughly 300,000 to 500,000 gallons per day. However, large hyperscale campuses can guzzle up to 5 million gallons per day. So, that's off.

[00:01:00]>> And there's some 30 million gallons in there.

[00:01:02]>> Um five >> find those around. You can You can even just Google that.

[00:01:07]>> There's some that that is >> it was in Georgia 30 million gallons of water was missing from one of them.

[00:01:12]>> Well, people probably get come and get you a little bit of that Georgia water.

[00:01:15]Get you a swig of it. It's probably 30 proof. A massive quality technology services QTS data center in Fayetteville, Georgia drained nearly 30 million gallons of water without paying or alerting the county.

[00:01:27]But we don't know if it was a day, but still it's a lot. It's a lot. That's a lot.

[00:01:30]>> Yeah. And No, there are there are some out there and we can we can look them up, but if you have >> What's the process What's the process of the use of water? Cuz I mean, they use it, but can you then like Can you purify the water or like is there a is like a process that you can then use it again? Like >> Well, so they just had if you want to pull up Cheyenne, Wyoming. So, there's open cooling and there's closed cooling and they want to go to more closed cooling systems where um the the water has to pa- Again, that reminds me a little bit of the Hinkley situation, because you're got a closed-loop system, you're going to need chemicals in there to prevent rust and corrosion. And I believe it just happened in Cheyenne, Wyoming, where they were draining that system and the there was some construction error, but it contaminated the entire um sewer system.

[00:02:24]>> Pull that up.

[00:02:25]>> So, it's Cheyenne, Wyoming.

[00:02:27]>> Cheyenne's Board of Public Utilities has temporarily stopped accepting wastewater from data centers fill and flush operations and closed-loop cooling systems after a Meta-linked construction discharge contaminated the city's reclaimed irrigation water with a rare bacterium. That's the same company that's doing in Louisiana.

[00:02:46]Right?

[00:02:47]>> Mhm. And we're seeing a lot of because the water is warmer, they have to be heated, you're seeing different chemicals that they're using in the closed system, it could be hexavalent chromium, it could be PFAS, uh that water could be full of >> Oh, yeah, for sure.

[00:03:03]>> other diseases.

[00:03:04]>> yeah, the water's bad, you know, anything. You be you know, the kids out there, you never even know he's he's sipping bad water, they got chromium in the water.

[00:03:12]>> And you can have accidents like this that you're reading about that just happened in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

[00:03:17]>> I mean, this is unbelievable. Meta's Cheyenne facility is designed to use a closed-loop liquid cooling system, meaning the same coolant water is recirculated within the data center, rather than continuously discharged.

[00:03:28]During construction, however, contractors performed fill and flush procedures to clean and pressure test the cooling pipes, and that one-time wastewater was sent to the city's reclamation system, where the bacterium was detected. And what's the bacteria? Let me see, it's at the top. What's it called?

[00:03:43]>> Legionnaire?

[00:03:44]>> No, it was Cupriavidus gilardii.

[00:03:48]So, he's I mean, he's a four-star recruit, I'm guessing, you know.

[00:03:53]I'm going to say that out there. I'm surprised Bro, give him an hour, Lane Kiffin will be over there recruiting him. You know that, dude.

[00:03:59]>> These waterborne bacteria are very dangerous. Matter of fact, we're watching the whole explosive diarrhea map that's happening right now, and they believe it's a waterborne bacteria.

[00:04:09]>> Is there?

[00:04:10]>> It's definitely going We can look that one up, too.

[00:04:13]>> Where's the bad diarrhea at now?

[00:04:14]>> It's cross-country. Didn't you see the big diarrhea map?

[00:04:17]>> I didn't see it.

[00:04:18]>> the big diarrhea map.

[00:04:19]>> But just the fact that this is where we're at Like, we've been lulled into idiocracy. The fact that this is where we're at. There's a big diarrhea map now because Yeah, because of how dangerous the water's gotten that it's like, oh, like that's going to be on the news now. Like from now The news is changing. It's going to be like, be careful, you know, if you're drinking water in this area, you're going to get big diarrhea or the baby's going to get a little bit of data in his bottle or whatever. You know what I'm saying? Like you can't even keep you know, your kids running outside and a strong breeze hits them that's coming off the top of a data center. Now he's got a bunch of analytics stuck in his neck or whatever. You know what I'm saying? You can't keep the data out of a baby diaper, bro. It just everything's going to get weird. While Michigan right here, it says this is from The Hill.

[00:05:02]While Michigan has seen the most cases of as of late, at least four more states have recorded more than 100 cases of explosive diarrhea causing parasitic illness have been reported, of course.

[00:05:13]You know, you got a Hey, you got a 40% of bad bad [ __ ] over there outside of Charlevoix here.

[00:05:20]The Center for Disease Control and Prevention said that between the start of May and mid-June, at least 145 cases of cyclosporiasis had been reported in a US.

[00:05:31]Cases of the parasite-based sickness are common each year from May through August, but some states are seeing larger than average spikes in cases.

[00:05:39]>> Waterborne diseases and illnesses we could start seeing a whole lot of in the future, especially as you know, whether you believe in climate change or not.

[00:05:47]I've always believed uh it's going to be water issues. Too much, too little, none at all. We're seeing that happening now.

[00:05:53]Uh even with flooding, and you flood municipalities, they can't get back online. You can have bacteria, parasites, everything get in there. The biggest transporter of everything on this planet is water.

[00:06:06]>> Well, we're we're almost we're we're like 90% We're 90% water, I think.

[00:06:10]>> So, we're really messing >> Yeah. Unless you're crying, it goes down a little.

[00:06:14]>> our most precious resource. And that is the one thing that data centers utilize the most.

[00:06:19]>> Yeah.

[00:06:20]>> And again, you know, AI's here to stay.

[00:06:24]But the data centers, especially when there's other solutions to it, they do not have to be built on top of drought-restricted areas who already are really struggling with water resources.

[00:06:37]And there's other locations we could be putting these in underground caverns.

[00:06:42]You know, some people say, "Why don't you have them in Antarctica?" Because they need water, and they need to be cool. There's many reports that China has built um tubular things and put them at the bottom of the ocean, but they have oversight. You can't build them on top of hospitals. You can't build them on top of homes. The the noise pollution, the size of these things, they 24/7 is noise. Generators, backup generators, a humming, a buzzing. It never ever stops.

[00:07:09]It is such a disruption to every one of us and our quality of life.

[00:07:14]>> How do you know that?

[00:07:16]>> People are reporting it, and the videos they're reporting it, and it's being studied. It is real. These are massive facilities that are just going to suck every one of our resources, and we don't even have an infrastructure system to support them.

[00:07:32]>> Yeah.

[00:07:32]>> And so, we've got a lot of issues. There you go.

[00:07:36]>> Living in hell, data center neighbors grapple with noise and air pollution. Uh Let me see. Because these data centers operate 24/7, they generate persistent background noise and chronic exposure to environmental noise has been associated with sleep disturbance, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, and even stress-related outcomes. Noise pollution can be especially harmful to children as it has been linked to poor cognition, decreased learning, and lower reading comprehension. Well, yeah, that's the thing, man. Your son's in the yard or whatever and suddenly some data flies through, you know, he gets hit by some data or something and he's got an episode of, you know, Friends or Seinfeld stuck in his back or whatever and then he's in a wheelchair. It's just like you just don't know what's in the data, either. You know what I'm saying?

[00:08:17]You could be going for a jog and you get hit by some damn data, some loose data.

[00:08:21]>> We're going to get hit by data noise.

[00:08:23]>> Yeah, but I'm just saying you got to like cuz data flies through the air.

[00:08:26]Like that's the thing. People it's like I don't understand sometimes what's going on. This cloud has sound, the unrelenting and unseen cost of AI data centers. Um What are they saying right here? And And this is a New York Times, which is, you know, suspect, uh but so so many places are. Instead of audibly hearing these extremely low frequencies, people physically feel them as pressure fluctuations, much like the deep vibration of a bass drum shaking your core at a concert.

[00:08:55]>> That's deep.

[00:08:56]>> Says Scott Hamilton. Dang, they said these things can give me a damn BJ or whatever and you just trying to chill out or whatever. You getting that data beige.

[00:09:04]A member of the Acoustical Society of America and a consultant on data center projects said that. Um This can leave the traditional gauges of noise and solutions for dampening it inadequate to meet modern needs. Some residents living near infrasound frequently report chronic sleep deprivation and insomnia, headaches, and internal ear pressure, and anxiety.

[00:09:43]>> Mhm.