• Skullgrid@lemmy.world
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    how the fuck does a data center pump out a rare germ? Seriously. Isn’t the water meant for cooling computers?!

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      Moreover, is it not the same water that enter the datacenter ?

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    “When the board shared that it found a substance in the city’s wastewater — not public drinking water — Fortis immediately stopped discharging industrial wastewater and began hauling it offsite,” a Meta spokesperson told Cowboy State.

    Bob Collins - Australian Senator: Well the ship was towed outside the environment.

    Interviewer: Into another environment…?

    Bob Collins - Australian Senator: No, no it’s been towed beyond the environment, it’s not in the environment.

    Interviewer: No but from one environment to another environment…?

    Bob Collins - Australian Senator: No it’s been towed beyond the environment, it’s not in an environment.

    Interviewer: Well what’s out there?

    Bob Collins - Australian Senator: Nothings out there!

    Interviewer: There must be something out there…?

    Bob Collins - Australian Senator: There is nothing out there, all there is is sea, and birds, and fish.

    Interviewer: And?

    Bob Collins - Australian Senator: And 20,000 tons of crude oil. truckloads of deadly bacteria

    Interviewer: And what else?

    Bob Collins - Australian Senator: And a fire.

    Interviewer: And anything else?

    Bob Collins - Australian Senator: And the part of the ship that the front fell off. But theres nothing else out there. It’s just a complete void.

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      Construction and vibrations caused by the generators disturb well water systems. Or if a main is close enough, heavy construction will settel the ground and break pipes.

      All the data center issues are caused by people and towns not classifying them as heavy industry. Do you want an aluminum foundry in your back yard? No, then same goes for a data center.

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    Our Amazon processing centers are all set to discharge “treated” 95-degree water into our waterways. Board of Supervisors isn’t concerned. Good times.

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    Seems like they are, how would you say?

    Careless People

    Like the book of the same name.

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    What is the highest-leverage attack on this kind of installation? Like most people don’t have access to cruise missiles (though if you do, please do the thing!), but I’m thinking ventilation intake. Like take a can of expanding foam (ie, GreatStuff), duct-tape an M-80 to it, light and chuck it into the ducting.

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      take out the water supply intake by pouring two common products into the water intake lines before the pumps.

      • roof sealant
      • hydraulic cement

      the roof sealant is viscous and sticky. it also cures while wet. it will gum up the pumps and turbines and make them sticky.

      the cement will bind to the sealant and cure rapidly, seizing the rotation of the pumps and turbines.

      it will be impossible to repair them and will need replacements. they may have replacements on site so you also need to puncture the cooling towers. bird shot from a shotgun should thoroughly shred the radiators.

      if fascists can get away with shooting power distribution hubs then why can’t we shoot data centers?

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      Just get a shit load of meth heads and tell them how much copper there is in these fucking murder centers