The title is missing a significant keyword here: "construction"
A more accurate headline:
Meta data center construction allegedly muddies Georgia town's drinking water, investigation underway — EPA promises immediate investigation after congresswoman brings dirty jars of water to hearing
This isn't exclusive to datacenters, any sort of large construction projects should be under the microscope right now. If there are legal loopholes allowing water supplies to be contaminated, that should be addressed. Meta and any other companies responsible for this should be billed the costs for cleaning up or for funding additional water treatment solutions to make up for this.
Sometimes those responses can be helpful, but there's usually a link to whatever page that it sourced some of the info from. I would strongly recommend that you get in the habit of clicking that link just to double check.
The doorbell in this case is one that was bought on Temu by Naxclow:
The unit ships under the name “Smart Doorbell X3” and pairs through a mobile app called “X Smart Home”
Looks like Naxclow responded to the pen tester's feedback very positively and are happy that he disclosed this issue to them. They've already started an internal review on the issue.
A decent portion of them are entirely human translated and are definitely more useful than the AI assisted translations since I've noticed a number of them including translator's notes to help add context to the text.
For those concerned about AI assisted translations, anytime some text has been translated with AI assistance, the website makes it very obvious. Links to original manuscripts are available. 19th century translations are also available for a decent number of those letters.
It's worth pointing out, this law doesn't affect free games, or subscription only based games.
I still think we'll need some sort of additional law that protects fans when they want to run the services themselves after a game has officially shut down. Too many times these groups end up receiving a cease and decist letter. Barely any group is going to be willing to take that on.
At the very least this should help tackle the annoying trend where even mostly single player games are at risk of being unplayable once servers are taken offline.
QTS told Politico the 29 million gallons were consumed during temporary construction activities, including concrete work, dust control, and site preparation. The company markets a "closed-loop" cooling system for its data centers, which recirculates the same water rather than drawing from the municipal supply.
Thanks, looks like I was wrong. I looked into the evaporative cooling. It looks like this kicks in if it's hot outside, otherwise the cooling units operate in a "dry" mode.
Although, none of that is directly heating up a lake, it looks like the water just flows into something like an A/C unit. Are there datacenters that are piping heat directly into lakes?
THE KICKER that's just to run the data center, think of the demand for the HVAC and ecological damage to using a lake's water to cool equipment (water would be coming out over 100⁰F).
I keep seeing this on Lemmy, but why do so many people think that these datacenters are using water from reservoirs for "cooling"?
Datacenters use A/C for cooling, and if there's any sort of "Liquid cooling" being used on these servers, it's in a closed loop system.
Water isn't being pumped out as steam or into the environment directly from datacenters, unless there's some other method I'm missing here?
What I think is getting mixed up here is that, for many forms of generating electricity, water is needed to be heated up in some way to create steam. The steam then turns a turbine which moves some magnets to generate electricity.
Some of those powerplants are in closed loop systems with their water, some of them are not. Additionally, if the energy is coming from solar/wind/hydro then there shouldn't be any concerns about water getting turned into steam anyway.
Technically, you can get the same answer twice from an LLM, but only when you control the full input. When a model is being run, a random seed/hash is applied to the input. If you run the model locally you could force the seed to always be the same so that you would always get the same answer for a given question.
Didn't the courts already decide that it's fair game to train models on any data as long as the data wasn't obtained illegally?
That, or use a chromium fork that ignores manifest v3 and supports manifest v2.
Nitter/XCancel Link:
https://xcancel.com/willo2_Poly/status/2061640812132516321
In short, they're great at finding and flagging things for a human to review.
The problem is when someone overestimates how well these models perform and they try to automate everything and put too much trust into these models.
At first I thought it could have just been a malicious ad that got onto his site somehow. But, no, this looks intentional:
From the user that blew the whistle on this: https://xcancel.com/dm4uz3/status/2057502403151212681
From a quick search, it looks like the construction site is here: Meta Stanton Springs Data Center #2 https://cartes.app/?allez=Meta+Stanton+Springs+Data+Center+%25232%7Cw1282590996%7C-83.67669%7C33.59840
It's very close to a number of streams/creeks that feed into lakes and other water sources nearby.
With the amount of vegetation that has been removed, all it takes is a good rainy day to have a lot of that mud running off into the water supply.
The title is missing a significant keyword here: "construction"
A more accurate headline:
This isn't exclusive to datacenters, any sort of large construction projects should be under the microscope right now. If there are legal loopholes allowing water supplies to be contaminated, that should be addressed. Meta and any other companies responsible for this should be billed the costs for cleaning up or for funding additional water treatment solutions to make up for this.
Sometimes those responses can be helpful, but there's usually a link to whatever page that it sourced some of the info from. I would strongly recommend that you get in the habit of clicking that link just to double check.
The doorbell in this case is one that was bought on Temu by Naxclow:
Looks like Naxclow responded to the pen tester's feedback very positively and are happy that he disclosed this issue to them. They've already started an internal review on the issue.
This is an awesome collection of letters.
A decent portion of them are entirely human translated and are definitely more useful than the AI assisted translations since I've noticed a number of them including translator's notes to help add context to the text.
For those concerned about AI assisted translations, anytime some text has been translated with AI assistance, the website makes it very obvious. Links to original manuscripts are available. 19th century translations are also available for a decent number of those letters.
It's worth pointing out, this law doesn't affect free games, or subscription only based games.
I still think we'll need some sort of additional law that protects fans when they want to run the services themselves after a game has officially shut down. Too many times these groups end up receiving a cease and decist letter. Barely any group is going to be willing to take that on.
At the very least this should help tackle the annoying trend where even mostly single player games are at risk of being unplayable once servers are taken offline.
Next thing you know, they'll start cutting down on the QA team because they can just use this capability to "test in prod".
I hadn't heard of the Nothing phone before so this title definitely had me wondering if the N was capitalized on accident in the title.
Nothing in that comment should have been construed as trying to defend the company from trying to weasel their way out of paying their water bill.
Some important context here:
Thanks, looks like I was wrong. I looked into the evaporative cooling. It looks like this kicks in if it's hot outside, otherwise the cooling units operate in a "dry" mode.
Although, none of that is directly heating up a lake, it looks like the water just flows into something like an A/C unit. Are there datacenters that are piping heat directly into lakes?
I keep seeing this on Lemmy, but why do so many people think that these datacenters are using water from reservoirs for "cooling"?
Datacenters use A/C for cooling, and if there's any sort of "Liquid cooling" being used on these servers, it's in a closed loop system.
Water isn't being pumped out as steam or into the environment directly from datacenters, unless there's some other method I'm missing here?
What I think is getting mixed up here is that, for many forms of generating electricity, water is needed to be heated up in some way to create steam. The steam then turns a turbine which moves some magnets to generate electricity.
Some of those powerplants are in closed loop systems with their water, some of them are not. Additionally, if the energy is coming from solar/wind/hydro then there shouldn't be any concerns about water getting turned into steam anyway.
I had to double check the community I was in. Is this really an AI image?
Technically, you can get the same answer twice from an LLM, but only when you control the full input. When a model is being run, a random seed/hash is applied to the input. If you run the model locally you could force the seed to always be the same so that you would always get the same answer for a given question.
Constitution by Nick Webb?