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The mega data center will require 600 million liters of water per year
The mega data center will require 600 million liters of water per yearFrance Evening - May 27, 2023
Zuckerberg's mega data center in Spain will require 600 million liters of water per year
The development by Meta of a large data center in the region of Toledo (Castilla-la-Mancha), is causing concern because of its estimated consumption of more than 600 million liters of drinking water in a region where the water is scarce.
Meta, the conglomerate run by Mark Zuckerberg and on which Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram depend, will install its largest data processing center in Europe in the province of Toledo.
It will be, more precisely, in Talavera de la Reina, the ancient capital of ceramics which today, despite its proximity to Madrid, is going through a period of social, economic and demographic crisis.
Economic opportunity...
The regional government of Castile-La Mancha decided a few weeks ago to continue the Meta Data Center Campus project, highlighting its impact on the territory - more than 1 jobs and 000 highly qualified direct jobs - but ignoring the fact that the infrastructure will consume more than 250 million liters of drinking water per year.
As El País explains, the “total” consumption, including “non-potable” water, could reach “120 liters per second in the data center and 33 liters per second” in the rest of the facilities. At this rate, we are talking about 4,8 billion liters of water per year. However, the company has not officially confirmed these estimates.
Meta currently has three such facilities in Sweden, Denmark and Ireland. A few months ago, a survey by the Noordhollands Dagblab media showed that Microsoft's data center in the Netherlands would consume 84 million liters of water in 2021, while the company had announced a consumption of 12 to 20 million. liters.
...but deleterious environmental impact?
This “under-declaration” is not a first. A similar pattern occurred in the Netherlands. The Middenmeer data storage and information centers, from Microsoft, consumed up to seven times more water than had been forecast when the project was launched.
Technically, water is used in abundance within data centers in order to reduce the temperature of servers or other electronic installations present (computers, storage bays, etc.).
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Spain abolishes VAT on basic necessities
Spain abolishes VAT on basic necessitiesQactus - Dec 30, 2022
To counter inflation, Spain is abolishing VAT on basic necessities.
Inflation in Spain: The Obs reports that, in Spain, the price of food products has increased by 15% in one year. Bread, milk, cheese, fruit, vegetables and cereals will be affected by the abolition of VAT.
The Spanish left-wing government announced on Tuesday, December 27 the abolition of VAT on basic necessities in order to compensate for the sharp rise in prices, as well as aid of 200 euros for the most modest families.
These announcements are part of a new series of measures worth 10 billion euros. This brings to 45 billion euros the amount of measures taken this year by the government to help Spaniards cope with the explosion of inflation, said Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez during his last press conference in the year.
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Is Spain on the brink of national bankruptcy?
Is Spain on the brink of national bankruptcy?Digital Dawn - June 04, 2022
Spain is not only one of the European countries where the covid hysteria has been successfully implemented, but also the fifth most indebted country in the world. State bankruptcy seems to be at hand.
This is why the left socialist government is in the process of passing a law authorizing the expropriation of private property and a “corralito”.
This last point means that the state can access the savings that people have in their bank accounts. In these “crisis situations”, the citizen would only be entitled to withdraw small sums. The rest of the money could be “temporarily” confiscated. The maximum amount would be determined by the authority of the country concerned, explained the portal "La Información" in March 2021.
