🚱 Residents Shut Down Google Data Center Before It Can Be Built

｢ Google nixed plans for a gigantic $1 billion data center on more than 460 acres of land in Indiana after residents hotly protested the proposal due to concerns that the complex would jack up electricity prices for neighbors and suck away untold gallons of water in an area already plagued with drought ｣

https://futurism.com/future-society/residents-shut-down-google-data-center

#ai #climatechange #drought #clankers

🚱 Residents Shut Down Google Data Center Before It Can Be Built

｢ Google nixed plans for a gigantic $1 billion data center on more than 460 acres of land in Indiana after residents hotly protested the proposal due to concerns that the complex would jack up electricity prices for neighbors and suck away untold gallons of water in an area already plagued with drought ｣

https://futurism.com/future-society/residents-shut-down-google-data-center

#ai #climatechange #drought #clankers

AI uses shittons of energy, bringing back coal and fueling fracking.
Fossil fuels increase earth's surface temperatures.
AI uses shittons of water to cool their data centers, causing droughts and ecocide.
Increased heat means data centers need even more water.

AI is Mars-forming Terra.

#LLMMeAlone #AI #FossilFuels #ClimateCrisis #drought #ecocide #ClimateJustice #TerraForming

AI uses shittons of energy, bringing back coal and fueling fracking.
Fossil fuels increase earth's surface temperatures.
AI uses shittons of water to cool their data centers, causing droughts and ecocide.
Increased heat means data centers need even more water.

AI is Mars-forming Terra.

#LLMMeAlone #AI #FossilFuels #ClimateCrisis #drought #ecocide #ClimateJustice #TerraForming

The approval of data centers in Australia without requiring measurable plans to cut water use is raising concerns the sector's rapid growth will leave residents competing for the resource. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/16/tech/australia-data-center-water/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #amazon #microsoft #blackstone #airtrunk #australia #water #drought #tech

More than half of Europe and the Mediterranean basin was hit by drought in mid-August, according to an AFP analysis of data from the European Union's climate monitor. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/09/09/climate-change/drought-europe-august-eu-data/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #climatechange #drought #eu #europe #climatechange

Why Some Farmers Are Stuck Raising Crops That No Longer Thrive
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Some farmers keep growing in flood- and drought-prone fields because subsidies soften the losses, while federal programs meant to help them change course have been underfunded and mired in bureaucracy. Under Trump, those programs may weaken further.

https://www.propublica.org/article/illinois-farming-soy-corn-flooding-subsidies-insurance?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News#Illinois#Farming#Agriculture#Flood#Drought#Climate

Why Some Farmers Are Stuck Raising Crops That No Longer Thrive
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Some farmers keep growing in flood- and drought-prone fields because subsidies soften the losses, while federal programs meant to help them change course have been underfunded and mired in bureaucracy. Under Trump, those programs may weaken further.

https://www.propublica.org/article/illinois-farming-soy-corn-flooding-subsidies-insurance?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News#Illinois#Farming#Agriculture#Flood#Drought#Climate

Seawater intrusion into Pakistan's Indus delta, where the Indus River meets the Arabian Sea in the south of the country, has triggered the collapse of farming and fishing communities. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/08/07/climate-change/delta-pakistan-indus-sinks/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #climatechange #pakistan #climatechange #environment #drought

The Trump administration's decision to slash nearly all U.S. foreign aid has left dozens of water and sanitation projects half-finished across the globe, creating new hazards for the people they were designed to benefit. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/20/world/politics/trump-aid-water-sanitation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #water #us #famine #drought #floods #donaldtrump #aid

Dear #permaculture & #nodig folk, how are y'all handling _the spreading_ of #woodchips during a #drought? Rather not and instead waiting for moister weather, or do you rather water them before spreading?

I'm wondering wether their insulating effect is a problem on soil that's dry to start with. The first few rains here seem to have barely moistened the top woodchip layer, but haven't reached the ground.

Seems like watering soil before spreading any cover seems best + then watering some more?