This is such a bad, uninformed and genuinely pitiful take that it's my duty to address it.
I live in Poland. There are currently a huge amount of hydrological problems all across the country and parts of it are desertifying. There are numerous articles and scientific journals about it:
So why is my country becoming a desert? And what if I don't want the scarce amount of water that's remaining in our rivers to be used by a water hungry datacenter? Is that unhinged?
you should educate yourself both at the ecological impact of data centers and the economics of running a water facility. it's just too simplistic to skim down 'water' used into a thing that turns it into rain and then it's captured to be used again. good luck with your next naive comment saying something like: rain is almost distilled water and treatment isn't required, so it can go into data centers directly
don't also forget people living nearby these facilities constantly facing drains due to the HIGH requirement of a server
Same argument people use against cows and almonds. The water is used and recycled. This is the weakest possible environmental argument you can possibly make. I’ll wait for the citizens to riot about their “wasted” water
If you are asking for human factors only then according to your link: "Decreases in the human population (such as from the massacres by Genghis Khan, the Black Death and the epidemics emerging in the Americas upon European contact)."
> Do you really believe all climate change in world history, which was dramatic and highly disruptive, was human caused?
It's nice that you can be so confidently wrong, just like an LLM. In reality, the climate changes we observe since the the 1800s is largely human caused.
'This human role in climate change is considered "unequivocal" and "incontrovertible". Nearly all actively publishing climate scientists say humans are causing climate change.'
So stop trying to push misinformation and educate yourself.
Wrong, it's changing much faster due to man-made greenhouse gasses. Make the effort to read through the science and facts I shared.
Here are some additional ones, from scientists (99.99% or 97%, depending on recency of studies, agree that man-made climate change is the leading driver of the global warming we are experiencing today):
"Scientists attribute the global warming trend observed since the mid-20th century to the human expansion of the "greenhouse effect"1 — warming that results when the atmosphere traps heat radiating from Earth toward space.
Life on Earth depends on energy coming from the Sun. About half the light energy reaching Earth's atmosphere passes through the air and clouds to the surface, where it is absorbed and radiated in the form of infrared heat. About 90% of this heat is then absorbed by greenhouse gases and re-radiated, slowing heat loss to space."
Hopefully that clarifies things.
> I wonder how humans caused that to end
It's all explained in the link(s) I shared. Educate yourself.
How do you think that works exactly? That data centers cause more rain than would otherwise fall? How is that not an ecological change? Where does it come from?
