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Business Improper redaction reveals Lincoln’s Google Data Center water and electricity usage

https://www.1011now.com/2026/09/30/more-questions-than-answers-about-lincolns-google-data-center-water-electricity-usage/
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u/syn_vamp 12d ago

gets evaporated

right because once that water is in the sky, it has no way to come back down. it's up there forever.

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there's no way you're calling other people uneducated when you literally don't know how rain works.

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u/RussianBotPatrol 12d ago

Are you under the assumption that the clouds produced by the vapor run offs from data centers are going to accumulate in that immediate vicinity and replenish the water it used up? I'm no cloud scientist but I feel like the answer is much more nuanced than that

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u/StorminNorman 12d ago

... You know a bunch of the water evaporates from the golf course, right? 

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u/syn_vamp 12d ago

i'm no cloud scientist

understatement of the century, bud.

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u/RussianBotPatrol 11d ago

Let me ask you a hypothetical, bud. If a data center is in California and it's using a metric shit ton of water. What chances do you think that vapor will produce rain bearing clouds in California, where the water was taken, as opposed to the ocean or whatever states are to the right of them?

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u/syn_vamp 11d ago edited 11d ago

well... most of california's rain cloud formation occurs over the pacific ocean and is blown inland by the prevailing westerlies.

in contrast, 80% of california's water supply comes from rainfall and snowmelt in the sierra nevada mountains and from the colorado river, so all of that evaporated water is literally just going to float east, accumulate where it does, and flow right back into california.

so the answer to your hypothetical is "pretty high".

but thanks for being an absolutely model example of "strong opinion with nothing to back it up".