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Why so secretive about all your water use, Big Tech?
What have you got to hide?
"The Dalles spent 13 months fighting to keep Google’s water use secret — then records showed the data center campus consumed roughly a third of the Oregon city’s supply."
Google uses a lot of water in Oregon’s city of The Dalles. Soon we’ll know how much, Chris Young, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, 2022
https://www.rcfp.org/dalles-google-oregonian-settlement/
The Dalles city sues local paper to keep Google’s data center water use secret, Sebastian Moss, Data Center Dynamics, 2021
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/the-dalles-city-sues-local-paper-to-keep-googles-data-center-water-use-a-secret/
@gerrymcgovern i fear that's a slop reblog, per the last line. here's the source: https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/mount-hood-water-google-21307223.php
@davidgerard thanks. I've changed it
"The original controversy was not a small municipality forcing a reluctant technology company into transparency. It was a municipality attempting to keep information about one of its largest industrial users outside public view."
https://scienceblog.com/j-the-town-of-the-dalles-oregon-spent-two-years-fighting-google-in-court-just-to-learn-how-much-of-its-river-water-the-companys-data-centers-were-using-and-when-the-numbers-finally-came-out-they-revea/
Environmentalists worry Google behind bid to control Oregon town's water
Concerns about Big Tech have emerged in a proposal to transfer Mount Hood land
https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/mount-hood-water-google-21307223.php
Data centers are destroying the future of communities by sucking up all the water and energy
"The consequences of data-center growth are intensely local. Recent research examining data-center demand on public water systems argues that water capacity can become a constraint on development and that the burden is concentrated in the communities hosting the facilities."
https://scienceblog.com/j-the-town-of-the-dalles-oregon-spent-two-years-fighting-google-in-court-just-to-learn-how-much-of-its-river-water-the-companys-data-centers-were-using-and-when-the-numbers-finally-came-out-they-revea/
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