Depending on the local climate, yes - evap cooling is typically the go. The data centres I work in here in Melbourne use evap free cooling (EFC).
For much of the year, due to our temperate climate, the cooling simply uses (filtered) outside air. During bouts of warmer weather (typically 29C+), we use evaporative cooling. Waste water from the EFCs is discharged into storm water drainage, and reported to our local water authority for billing.
This might be a stupid question, but I wonder why they (datacenters) can’t recover the water they use especially if it’s in the order of magnitude that it significantly impacts water resources in their area.
I might be missing something big here, but I am imagining water-cooled systems that transfers heat to the water, but the water is otherwise unused. This water might not be able to be fed back (to the water sources in the area) as is, but it can be cleaned up and cooled down, and then be used for other purposes, right?
An excellent question, that I suspect the answer to will vary in many jurisdictions.
We do re-use the water we use in our EFCs, but only a limited number of times. After a specified number of uses, local regulations require that we discharge it into storm water, to mitigate against the risk of things like legionella and other potentially deadly airborne bacteria.
We’re also required to test and treat all stored water monthly.
a judge ruled in February 2020 that he was not mentally competent to stand trial and he was sent to a mental hospital in California, where he received psychotropic medication and other mental health treatment.
Profoundly fucked up. God knows what this guy went through at the clinic for telling the truth
The whole story read like a thriller novel where the protagonist was being gaslighted from page one. Just absolutely horrifying to know someone went through that.
It’s kind of weird that you can get 30 years for lying to a credit union once, but only 2 for stealing someone’s identity for 30 years.
If the victim is a federally insured financial institution you get a huge jail sentence.
But if the victim is a person with no safety net, it’s a comparative slap on the wrist.
Skewed priorities.
He’d already stolen a car under his first name from his parents. My guess is mostly that he had a clean record, with potential discomfort with his family name (the article points out he’s adopted, which feels… either gross or like there’s missing context, but stealing a car from your parents isn’t a symptom of a great relationship).
I read about a particular book that is responsible for so many cases of identity theft similar to this guy’s story. Even knowing all the tricks and stuff used in the book, it’s very hard to catch someone once they use it to disappear/become someone else.
If the thing that talked about it actually named the book, I would have said the name of the book. It’s literally banned by the FBI, so it’s not like you’d find a copy in America.
We’re literally in the midst of a book banning epidemic over here that started surging in 2021. Half the country doesn’t give a shit about the rules or freedom.
Ma’am this is in reference to public school libraries…you don’t know the title to the book that is banned that you referred to…so apparently you don’t know if it’s banned or not huh? Take a moment to look at your hand…Do you have a pipe in it? That’s what I thought… just sit it down for a while… 😔
Yeah I saw it…are you referring to the one book in 2010 regarding classified military information from a veteran or the Mafia one in 92 because it contains incorrect information about federal taxes because the rest of those books are from the 70s and way earlier… And they are all available… You want to keep digging for some better evidence for your claim cutie pie? Because I haven’t been to a school library in a hot minute and as far as buying a physical book… better ask somebody cuz https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/8e6164d9-053c-4fd5-8e24-ce6b526a674a.jpeg
I hope the real Keirans has enough to be worth suing. No way he didn’t know some poor guy was sitting in jail for years because of him. What was it all about?
It sounds like the real guy’s story was quite sad. He was apparently mentally ill when he was thrown in jail, and (not stated in the article) possibly freaked out instead of being able to deal with the LE and administrative bureaucracies about the name misuse. So they decided there was nothing to his story and locked him up. Obviously this was triggered by the ID theft, but it also seems like a system failure in that the discrepancy wasn’t solved and the fake guy caught, at that time. The real guy instead went through a court case and served 2 years after pleading no contest for the “ID theft” of using his actual real name.
The fake guy on the other hand did the identity theft in his early 20s, bouncing some checks to steal a car under the other guy’s name (the other guy got in trouble over that, but it’s unclear how much). He got a fast food job under the fake name, and eventually worked his way up to a high paying hospital IT job where he worked and paid his taxes for 10 years til the ID theft fell apart. It’s not stated whether he got up to other bad stuff using the fake name.
The fake guy now faces 2 years in prison for aggravated ID theft and 30 years for “false statement to a National Credit Union Administration insured institution”. That is a pretty surprising difference betwen the two. I wonder what his actual sentences will be. He is 58 now.
It’s worth reading the article in this instance as covers a fair amount of detail. It’s hard to tell whether it’s a story of a mostly-reformed ex-scumbag trying to escape from his past, or if he continued to be up to other stuff as well.
Added: I got confused, the real guy’s arrest was in 2019, not decades earlier. So the fake guy lied to the police with false documents relatively recently resulting in the real guy getting locked up, not so good.
I don’t think he was mentally ill! The judge thought he was because he wouldn’t stop claiming he was who he actually was. They literally put a dude in jail for claiming he was himself! Like what else is he supposed to do? Go steal someone else’s identity?
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