My views of eco terrorism are mostly from reading Zodiac : an ecothriller. The protagonist uses quick acting cement to plug polluting sewage pipes and back up the toxic waste into the polluting facilities.
This could be done in the opposite direction as well. Plug the incoming water pipe to starve the beast pulling hundreds of thousand of liters of water.
You’re assuming the failure point is going to be inside of the facility but it’s WAY more likely to be an underground pipe that will speed that that sewage directly into the earth.
This is way worse because it might not be obvious that it’s happening for a looong time.
Seriously, find some other way to ecoterrorize. This one is not worth it.
Neal Stephenson. good stuff, before he kinda went… corpo with Termination Shock.
I wonder if he’s concluded ‘if anyone is gonna stop the cycle it’ll have to be a disruptor who just seeds atmospheric blockers’, because I wasn’t impressed with that book.
Yeah but isn’t that also an easy fix for the datacenter? Like the people running it will just shut things down, discover the cement, remove it, and start up again.
I think the hope is that the lack of water for cooling will cause permanent damage by overheating. But the reality is there are failsafes to prevent this.
Shutting down a data center for the cost of a bag of cement is a good cost to loss ratio though. It may only be for a day but that is easily repeatable. Shut it down every few days while they are already losing money running at a loss and trying to show some sort of usage stats that will get fucked by the repeated shutdowns.
Obviously you have to find multiple ways to fuck with them like bad additives in their diesel generator fuel tanks. Drones dropping epoxy into the cooling fans on the roof.
They don’t just blindly use whatever water comes from the lake and put it directly into the loop.
They’ll have treatment, filtration, and cossosion-resistant parts, and probably separated loops where the only liquid that directly interacts with anything important is completely isolated from the intake and outflow water.
My views of eco terrorism are mostly from reading Zodiac : an ecothriller. The protagonist uses quick acting cement to plug polluting sewage pipes and back up the toxic waste into the polluting facilities.
This could be done in the opposite direction as well. Plug the incoming water pipe to starve the beast pulling hundreds of thousand of liters of water.
Holy shit do NOT DO THIS.
You’re assuming the failure point is going to be inside of the facility but it’s WAY more likely to be an underground pipe that will speed that that sewage directly into the earth.
This is way worse because it might not be obvious that it’s happening for a looong time.
Seriously, find some other way to ecoterrorize. This one is not worth it.
Neal Stephenson. good stuff, before he kinda went… corpo with Termination Shock.
I wonder if he’s concluded ‘if anyone is gonna stop the cycle it’ll have to be a disruptor who just seeds atmospheric blockers’, because I wasn’t impressed with that book.
Yeah but isn’t that also an easy fix for the datacenter? Like the people running it will just shut things down, discover the cement, remove it, and start up again.
I think the hope is that the lack of water for cooling will cause permanent damage by overheating. But the reality is there are failsafes to prevent this.
That is what I figured. Gotta do something with lasting consequences like mixing sugar into the cement.
only works if it ain’t finished yet tho
Pour a decent bit of algae into the water supply (freshwater shouldn’t have algae, but enough will get past standard biocides used in cooling)
Shutting down a data center for the cost of a bag of cement is a good cost to loss ratio though. It may only be for a day but that is easily repeatable. Shut it down every few days while they are already losing money running at a loss and trying to show some sort of usage stats that will get fucked by the repeated shutdowns.
Obviously you have to find multiple ways to fuck with them like bad additives in their diesel generator fuel tanks. Drones dropping epoxy into the cooling fans on the roof.
Unplugging a pipe is easy
Unknowingly having salt water corrode your cooking system over time is a disaster
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So you are saying, there are humans in these facilities we could target to disable those systems?
They decided to work for the clankers. They chose to be targets.
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I thought we were talking specifically about recently built data centers for majority use by AI companies
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They don’t just blindly use whatever water comes from the lake and put it directly into the loop.
They’ll have treatment, filtration, and cossosion-resistant parts, and probably separated loops where the only liquid that directly interacts with anything important is completely isolated from the intake and outflow water.