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    Bericht warnt: Amazon-Rechenzentrum steht im Zusammenhang mit seltenen Krebserkrankungen und Fehlgeburten in Oregon

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    2. Etrensce on

      The headline could have also been farms and food processing plants in Morrow County linked to rare cancers.

    3. dbzfanjake on

      „Doherty believed that the rise in these cancers was in part due to several massive farms and food processing plants in Morrow County“

    4. DamnMyNameIsSteve on

      TLDR: The issue compounds when Amazon extracts that same contaminated groundwater – already above federal nitrate limits – for its cooling systems. As the water circulates through the data centers, some of it evaporates, but the nitrates don’t, resulting in a higher concentration of pollutants. By the time this used water is routed back into the wastewater system, nitrate levels can spike dramatically, in some cases averaging 56 parts per million – roughly eight times higher than Oregon’s safety threshold.

    6. Grilledstoner on

      Im sure this administration will do something about it. Likely nothing to help these people but something.

    8. I_like_Mashroms on

      And lemme guess…

      They aren’t going to stop.

      It will cause further, generational issues.

      Amazon will start a „safe water campaign“, teaching folks how to „clean“ water for consumption.

      The burden of fixing the problem will then lie with the public.

      It may sound crazy but it’s pretty much exactly what happened with coca cola, Nestle and all those other guys slapping „recycling“ symbols on their product but still being allowed to produce all the waste „that people just won’t recycle“.

    11. ok-milk on

      Data centers appear to be the new bogeyman, which is hilarious if you have ever been inside of one. They are loud, cold, boring places to be unless you are working on an outage or a deployment.

      And they have been around forever. For as long as people have been looking at websites, there have been these rare-cancer-causing boxes of cold air and computers.

      edit: I should have added that downvotes are processed in a data center, probably AWS (Amazon)

    12. PauI_MuadDib on

      So where are the anti-choice politicians that are trying to get abortion pills banned because they claim the toilet waste from these users contaminates the water and can cause miscarriages to others.  

      So the waste being produced by AI data centers is allegedly linked to miscarriages? Gee, all those „prolife“ politicians sure are quiet. I’m not seeing „Christians“ lifting a finger either 🤔. 

      https://archive.is/6ml3s

    13. Kyrie_Blue on

      While this is absolutely a problem, visiting 30 homes and finding 25 miscarriages is a numerical impossibility.

      Has anyone vetted these numbers?

    14. Raa03842 on

      I’m sure AI will come up with a solution. Nothing here for hoomans to worry about. /s

    15. eddielement on

      “This article itself makes it clear that the water pollution linked to cancer and miscarriages is coming entirely from nitrate pollution from farms. And from what I can tell the DCs are only using 0.3-1.5% of the area’s water.

      It says the DCs are drawing water already polluted with nitrates, evaporating some of it, and returning it to a wastewater facility. Because nitrates don’t evaporate, the water returned has a higher concentration of nitrates. This is why they say the DCs aren’t „polluting“ the water, they’re „worsening“ a pollution problem. But even this is silly. It looks like Amazon’s wastewater is only around ~0.7% of the Port’s total volume, so the concentrated water gets diluted into the other 99.3%. The impact is negligible.

      The article itself has a lot of great coverage of people harmed by nitrate pollution from farms.

      This headline is like running a story on how a cigarette company caused cancer, but the headline only mentioning an unrelated bowling alley in the town, and implying the bowling alley caused the cancer. You’re letting the bad guy completely off the hook with this framing, and using these people’s suffering to frame another unrelated org that had zero effect. I can’t believe this was published.”

      I’ll just leave this here… https://x.com/andymasley/status/1993152641908502584?s=46&t=bFmZbWRZLxYxWebYeImDUw

    16. Error-InvalidName on

      If you think data centers are these battery and electric vehicle factories are going to blow your mind.

    17. poo_poo_platter83 on

      Seems like a VERY easy problem to solve so the fact it went on this long is pure negligence. From reverse osmosis, anion exchange, or electrodialysis. All of these methods can easily remove nitrates from water at not to crazy of a cost.

      When i bought my first home, even though we have city water, i still put a 3 stage filtration system in my house as i was having kids.

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