re: #238 mmmirele

Goodyear, AZ, has a Microsoft data center that is draining Arizona water. Apparently it’s guaranteed 56 million gallons of drinking water to run the damn place.

futurism.com

Mesa, AZ (where I live) guaranteed 1 million gallons of water a day to Google to get a data center. Google claims it’s going to use “air cooling”, but (per the article above), that only works when the air temp is below 85F. Guess what? It’s going to be in the 90s this week.

12news.com

Oh, and speaking of the eclipse here, it looks like even our partial eclipse is going to be a bust. It’s overcast.

But don’t even get into how much water gets sucked up by cotton and citrus plantations in Arizona.