Greater London Authority to prioritize “clean, green and efficient” data centers in the future, could build them on grey belt land
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<p>Sets out sustainability and social impact criteria for future data center development</p>
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they hardly use any water.
— SOVEREIGN FREN (@SovereignFren) August 3, 2026
old-school data centers used evaporative, open-loops.
modern, AI-centric data centers are almost all closed-loop, extremely water-efficient. not literally zero consumption, but very efficient.
what retards are conflating is the water usage from…