This is the industrial version of that story, but it's always the same. Don't build big new cities in the desert, don't grow cotton in the desert, don't put massively water-intensive data centers in the desert. There's a pattern here if you can catch on!https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/drought-stricken-communities-push-back-against-data-centers-n1271344 …
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The good news is since everybody just moved to these places, we know they can move out again. When the ancestral lands only go back to mom and dad buying into a subdivision in 1990, it's less painful.pic.twitter.com/jM3BooDVJg
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Those of us who live in Phoenix, Az. disagree.
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Yeah, but you won't be there to disagree for much longer.
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Because there was no law enforcement out there and you could build casinos
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bitcoin is the desert of finance, basically
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Because money
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Not only that but in PHX area it is completely normal to see massive fountains, spraying out thousands of gallons of water into the 115F air, to mark....a strip mall with like a Walgreens and a couple of sandwich shops. How...?
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Maybe the new Dune movie will have a cultural impact on water usage.
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Water rate in my Canadian city with ample groundwater: $7.60/1,000 gallons. Water rate in drought-stricken Green Valley, Arizona: $1.75/1,000 gallons. I don't understand things.
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Subsidies. We steal water from Mexico and sell it cheap to Arizona municipalities.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Arizona_Project …
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