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‘Who Wants to Live Like This?’ Locals Fume as Meta AI Data Center Upends Entire Community
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If you look at the city of Tehran, right now, they are talking of evacuating a city of 15 million souls because - no more water.
If reports are true, much of the us southwest is only a few years and one bad rain season away from the same fate.
Allowing these monstrosities to consume all your potable water just seems like madness.
While much of what I you say is true, Iran's water mismanagement is legendary
Is it worse than the USSR cotton fields?
The fact that these even consume water is madness. Like running coolant to a radiator is just a few dollars too much electricity for these bean counters.
Phoenixthis weekend just had its biggest rainfall on record.
Raining isn't same as managing.
Rainfall is not going to do anything for the people if the water ends up in the ocean. It needs to be saved and seeped into the ground.