Google has been given the go-ahead to pump some 550 million gallons of clean drinking water per year to cool servers at its sprawling data center in South Carolina, sparking outrage and fears the company will deplete the supply.
After months of wrangling over the tech giant’s request, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) gave its approval for the company to draw water from a major aquifer for its data center in Berkeley County, so long as it complies with the terms of the permit, in particular caps on the amount it can use.
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Thanks for sharing. I had not heard of this story until now.
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These South Carolina Politics are not only
anti-social, they are also dumb, if they still have a body consisting
of 80% water...
Google should suffocate under their data... Bye!
Reality is, as much if not more, than many other places politics has a lot of scratching backs. When you get into big money such as around Charleston there can be a lot of politics the average citizen doesn't even know about.
Ha! I worked on that data center about a year or so ago.