Midwestern droughts have reduced the flow of the Mississippi. Groundwater depletion has caused coastal land to sink below sea level. Sea-temperature increases raised the sea level in the Gulf. The result: rising ocean waters are out-competing the Mississippi flow, pushing up the riverbed, and will reach New Orleans’ water treatment plant. The city’s water supply will be undrinkable, while the salt leaches poisons out of lead pipes. They have one month.
@waldoj so much of this water shortage is exponentially compounded by cooling data centers for AI and blockchain.
Not only do they burn insane amounts of fuel. They destroy aquifers.
They want to blame it on our internet use, but it is their theft of our data and surveillance capitalism, and corporate ponzi schemes and all it's waste that is causing it.
It's for stuff no one wanted but the oligarchs wanting total domination over the whole world, damn the cost.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/04/25/data-centers-drought-water-use/
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