Data Centres in SA Will Consume Too Much Water
As South Africa expands its AI and digital infrastructure, concerns are growing over the long-term impact of data centres on water and electricity resources.
For those who are not aware, Durban is reportedly planning to build a massive 400MW artificial intelligence data centre in partnership with a South Korean power consortium. This will potentially be SA’s largest data centre, burning up no less than 25% of the city of Durban’s current electricity supply. Let that sink in!
You might ask, “What is the aim of all this?” Well, it’s to establish SA as the premier digital gateway and technological hub for Africa. Building these AI factories will serve to fuel high-performance computing, but at what cost to Mother Nature and our beautiful land?
South Africa is already a water-scarce country, and predictions are that these data centres will consume a whopping estimated 17.94 to 29.42 billion litres of water annually by 2030! If we don’t desperately put the brakes on this process, who knows where we will be in 5 years?
Equinix is expanding into Cape Town with a 7.5 billion Rand investment. The Cavaleros Group announced similar plans for major campuses in Cape Town and Pretoria. Teraco( Digital Realty), Africa Data Centres, Vantage Data Centres, and NTT Data are the major players in the current market. Now, given the World Economic Forum’s clearly stated goals for their Utopian 2030 agenda, the building of these Data centres, coupled with Digital ID infrastructure, Net Zero goals, controlling our carbon footprint, reducing our overall meat consumption and driving behavior which is borderline robotic in its very nature, one has to start wondering about why Leon Schreiber is suddenly pushing Digital ID so much, whilst Ramaphosa announced the imminent ending of the trusted green ID book.
Never mind preserving our water resources or protecting our farmers, or our privacy, for that matter! The Globalist Elites want nothing more for you and me than to rely solely on them for our daily living requirements – tracking us, controlling our spending and monitoring our carbon usage, as if we are caught up in some sort of Squid Games reality where everything we do is for their entertainment! Without water, there is no life! No matter if we have 5G, 6G or even 10G technology! Environmental activist groups need to be much more vocal and show much more resistance! Churches need to condemn this sort of digital overreach and abuse of power by our government, and you and I need to pray for a revival in SA!
