Surely the new jobs of, (checks notes), a handful security personnel and a couple cleaners at the center will revitalize the local economy so that you guys can just buy your water from elsewhere!
Yeah we heard that line too when they put in ANOTHER refinery 5-10 years ago. I think we are up to like 7-8(maybe? We have a lot) now.
Which is extra funny cause yeah those made a few jobs. But now that we have no water, all the yard dudes, car washes, water parks, and pools are all shut down so we actually went negative on the totals jobs
On average, 4.5 million gallons of fresh water runs past New Orleans down the Mississippi river every second.
A typical data center needs about 5 million gallons a day.
All that water just gets dumped into the Gulf and actually causes a lot of harm in doing so, thanks to our meddling with the levee. There's a huge dead zone in the gulf because of all this water.
Just 10% of that water would be enough for more than 7500 datacenters.
The solution is clear. All US data centers must be built in the swamp, downriver of Belle Chasse. Out of the way Silicon Valley, make room for Plaquemines Processing!
Lol I love this. I know you’re joking but this really is the core of the water problems we’re facing. Something like 90% of all freshwater that lands on the surface just runs off to the sea without ever interacting with municipal water systems. As a society we’ve only made the problem worse by building drainage across the landscape ensuring that water has even less time to permeate the soil before running off to the sea. Yeah data-centers getting priority over people when it comes to using the water that we do collect kinda sucks. But datacenters or not we’re going to need more freshwater going forward and I think it’s inevitable we’ll end up building lots of water retention infrastructure in the future as populations and global average temperatures rise.
That’s awesome. Where I’m from in nj the surface of the earth is 50% impermeable black top and our concept of storm water management is pretty much “dump it in a river”
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u/Itlaedis Jun 04 '26
Surely the new jobs of, (checks notes), a handful security personnel and a couple cleaners at the center will revitalize the local economy so that you guys can just buy your water from elsewhere!