Did you know there exists 1200 kinds of bamboo? Let's cover up the whole world with them instead of datacenters :D
this post was submitted on 26 Jun 2026
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Only in the south. And only if you use the American species of bamboo.
Find the tallest hemp plants, preferable tree size, and throw their seeds around the data centers.
What? Nature is against this affront to nature? How odd.
Please for the love of God don’t do my stupid ideas. I don’t condone any of them.
Get a fucking gas powered pressure washer full of liquid culture of this shit ( https://www.ecurrent.com/food/meet-the-mushroom-stronger-than-sidewalks-banded-agaricus/ ) and spray the building from the back of a pick up truck while wearing a hazmat suit, cheaper than you'd think clean room suit with a skin tight Russian surplus gas mask retrofitted with a modern Honeywell filter using a gas mask adapter.
Anything invasive that invade via rhisomes like Elephant Grass. If you want to really fuck with them you could do sugar cane. You could do blackberries, raspberries, blueberries.
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if its a ai datacenter that guzzles water like it has no limits,am planting lots of bamboo
I'd actually be curious as to the share of resources each of these aspects of modern internet architecture use.
I'm just just Google sans AI sucks up some serious water and electricity, I just have no idea how it compares.
There is currently no public breakdown of U.S. data center water consumption by AI vs non-AI workloads. However, AI appears to account for a minority of total data center compute and electricity demand today, suggesting its share of water consumption is also likely to be a minority, though the exact proportion is unknown.
However I can give some examples of cloud services:
AWS / Amazon data centers used roughly 2.5 billion gallons globally in 2025
https://www.latitudemedia.com/news/amazon-finally-reports-its-annual-water-use-at-data-centers
Google data centers used roughly 7.7 billion gallons globally in 2024
https://www.latitudemedia.com/news/data-center-water-use-black-box-google-trying-to-change
All U.S. data centers: about 17.4 billion gallons per year direct water consumption in 2023, projected to reach 38–73 billion gallons per year by 2028. That includes cloud, AI, enterprise, colocation, storage, etc.
https://mostpolicyinitiative.org/science-note/data-center-water-use
This nonsense again?
Look what community you are in?... What did you expect?
Different nonsense instead of the same nonsense again.