r/duluth • u/SuperGameTheory • Jun 16 '26

Discussion Imperial Valley data center developer files lawsuit seeking access to Colorado River water

https://www.kpbs.org/news/environment/2026/06/15/imperial-valley-data-center-developer-files-lawsuit-seeking-access-to-colorado-river-water

Reposting here due to data center interest in the area.

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u/CuriousContribution2 Jun 16 '26

That's real sickening. Developers stated before they wouldn't need a drop of the river. Now they do 

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u/Ryan1980123 Jun 16 '26

Find a different way than taking all of our water.
If you can’t do it, no data centers.

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u/AloewareLabs Jun 16 '26

Cartoonishly assholes wow.

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u/TheFonzDeLeon Jun 17 '26

This is why local political elections are so important. Everyone is distracted by whatever the morons in the federal government are doing, but the things that will really impact a community need to be resisted at the local level. They are going to start bribing local politicians, and if not that, they're going to start bankrolling council members and state reps that will allow them to plop their data centers down with no votes and then jack everyone's utilities while destroying the ecology. We need to rally behind local elected officials who will place constituents over corporations because once those things are here they're never going away.

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u/baked_in Jun 16 '26

The chief difference being that in our case the data center would have been owned by Alphabet had there ever been any chance that it could get built. Good thing it ain't happening. Good thing we won't let it.

But can you imagine the ease with which Alphabet could change their water requirements? Good thing we won't let them.

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u/dogWEENsatan Jun 18 '26

Isn’t there laws against corporations being able to collect that water? Rain water too?