Full title: Voters Aren’t Waiting for November to Try Ousting Officials Over Data Centers | As a backlash grows over data centers, more local officials are facing recall elections for their support of the computing sites.
Full title: Voters Aren’t Waiting for November to Try Ousting Officials Over Data Centers | As a backlash grows over data centers, more local officials are facing recall elections for their support of the computing sites.
I’m not sure we should keep harping on water usage. Agriculture (especially in the american southwest) uses THE VAST MAJORITY of freshwater. Its not even close.
We should harp on the fact that they take up land, are loud, are being used for mass surveillance and state violence, and owned by billionaires. Thats reason enough to get rid of them. Oh and driving up electric bills (just got my letter this month telling me to conserve power becuase my bills going up. Theyre putting a data center here. Really pisses me off)
Most of the water for agriculture will go back to earth and will continue the water cycle in that area. While water for data center usually evaporated, which will contributes more to draught in that area
That makes sense and I’m not an expert but…evaporated water comes back down again as rain does it not? It’s been a while since I’ve dug into this. Lakes evaporate all the time.
My wife (who is a professor) explained it to me this way. The water would have gone into the ground water for the local area, by evaporating, it goes into the larger water system globally, meaning it will rain somewhere else. Ultimately, hurting the available ground water supply of the local population.
Oh well the solution’s obvious. We’ll just stop growing food.
Stop growing shit we dont need like almonds in the desert. Its pretty damn stupid.