Yup, just takes a single person!

Why the hell are they trying to build data centers in the fucking Sonoran Desert anyway.

Because they got fuck-you money.

I don't use AWS! Are all the data centers gone yet?

Clearly I need to pull myself up by my bootstraps and checks notes change how large portions of the Internet get their compute.

I'm gonna use up all the fresh water just popping down to the data center for some AWS compute time, as a treat.

Yeah, seems like a desert isn’t the best place to build something where cooling is a critical factor! Or building something that uses massive amounts of chemical treated water for cooling in a place that has had water scarcity concerns for generations, now.

It's not their water, so they don't care.
When it finally runs out, they'll just go somewhere else.

Good luck using the internet while avoiding AWS

Ah yes, just stop using the internet.

I mean, sure, that's their plan, but you can only do that so many times before you run out of money, materials, water, or places to build. If ever there was proof that there's no forward thinking in this tech bubble, this would be it.

So they'll just go build it in Chandler with all the others instead, I guess?

I haven't given a god damn dime to amazon since 2020, ever since I learned about the piss bottles. I've asked (and assisted) others to do the same. What else do you expect someone to do? Speak for yourself asshole.

Are you familiar with AWS? Amazon Web services. Many, many, websites use them and I don't think there's a way to tell as a user.

Like, you go to a website and their images are hosted on s3 (an aws service) and their database is on RDS (also AWS), and their whole backend application is using eks or ecs or whatever.

That's extremely common. Companies don't run their own hardware anymore very often.

I'm sure you don't actually understand how this functions but the reason that products aren't really available on storefronts anymore is because they're sold on Amazon.

We created a monster.

How do you know that this instance isn't running on AWS?

Any link that you click on which takes you to an external website has a large probability of taking you to an AWS datacenter.

They building a new data center in the bay area California that is struggling for water all the time. But its OK they are building it upstream towards the reservoir so they can get first dibs

I mean water isn't that important

I have somehow avoided Amazon all these years. It’s easy for me, nothing I require is connected to Amazon.

I’m sure there are aspects of the business that I can’t avoid that I don’t even know I’m being dragged into, but I don’t spend my money with them.

Anytime I can’t find something somewhere else, I just move on and forget about it.

The only times I’ve ever been bummed about it is when I’m working on some small project and the parts are half the price on Amazon. Most recently, it was parts for an arcade machine.

If I’m being inconvenienced, I don’t even know it.

I walked away originally when they acquired cdnow.com. I last visited the site when it began redirecting to Amazon.

Low humidity. Good for longevity of electronics, and makes the evaporative cooling more efficient. So it’s a matter of the benefits of that vs. the cost of the added heat.

you can only do that so many times before you run out of money, materials, water, or places to build

That's someone else's problem. Hopefully someone after they're dead, but as long as they have their golden parachute, who cares?