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Wisconsin Data Center Boom Will Demand Massive Water, Energy Resources

Local Community Leader Is Raising Awareness About Data Drinking

3 min read

FAQS Poll

Should headlines have to be read all the way through?

FAQoscopes

Aries The stars say you'll finally read past a headline this week. The stars have been wrong before.

Taurus A data center will offer to cool you off. Decline politely.

Gemini Both of you should stop arguing in the group chat.

Cancer Your reindeer has signed with a Finnish racing team. Let him go.

Leo Mercury is in retrograde, which is why your tub is on a mountain.

Virgo Someone will call you a pun-dit. Take it as a compliment, then leave.

Street FAQs

The story

Wisconsin's data center boom will demand massive water and energy. What do you think?

“I don't trust anything that's cooler than me. That rules out data centers and most of my grandkids.”
Dennis KlapperRetired Snowplow Enthusiast
“If they're going to use our water, the least they can do is make the internet taste like a cheese curd.”
Tara VukovichAspiring Cheese Sommelier
“I've been drinking data for years. That's why I know so much about sectional sofas I'll never buy.”
Gil OstrowskiProfessional Parade Waver

FAQS By The Numbers

Where Wisconsin's beer is going

Converted into data
41%
Spilled at a Brewers tailgate
27%
Lost in a closed-loop system nobody can explain
19%
Actually drunk
12%
Still in the cooler from 2019
1%

Source: a guy at the bar

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Pun Hub
Tommy Pun

Wisconsin's Data Centers Are Just Too Cool For School

Under the real headline: “Wisconsin Data Center Boom Will Demand Massive Water, Energy Resources”

Enter Pun Hub. We dare you.

FAQ / Counter-FAQ

Should Dogs Be Allowed To Run For Mayor?

FAQ

Yes. I will fetch every vote personally. I will also fetch the ball. Please throw the ball. Is that a squirrel. I love you.

Biscuit Golden Retriever, Candidate
Counter-FAQ

No. Absolutely not. I have watched this candidate eat a sock. I will be running instead, but only if no one asks me to.

Mittens Housecat, Concerned Citizen

The Breakdown

What's actually inside a data center

  • One extremely loud fan named Doug
  • 42,000 blinking lights that each mean something different and urgent
  • A single laminated sign reading “Do Not Pour Beer Here”
  • Every photo you deleted in 2014
  • A vending machine that only takes exact change
  • Your Wi-Fi password, written on a sticky note

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