Your ignorance is really showing in this one. WE DON'T NEED OR WANT DATA CENTERS. This is just another step in the new world order the elites are planning for the sheep. This country needs a second revolution, and when the average joe doesn't have water or electricity because the data centers have taken it all, maybe then we'll see one.
Have you done a deep dive into the harm the Data Center does? Resources are finite and will the amount used affect the local citizens bills? How many jobs do they actually create? Do we have people with the skill set needed to work at Data Center? How will this affect the health for citizen’s nearby? What is their real purpose? Many more questions. Do we actually want a controlled grid to record our every move?
I had not read your previous substack and see you addressed some of the concerns I mentioned. Some states have already included parameters for building. Not sure our state can do that with our legislatures. Still more questions. Thank you.
Thanks for the four part series. It helped me see the bigger picture here in Mississippi. Have you seen the comparison of data centers to Almonds and golf courses wrt water usage and economic output? Don't know if that's accurate but might be interesting to compare data centers with poultry processing or cotton.
That's a good suggestion, and it sent me down a rabbit hole.
I found the almonds and golf course comparison, and at the national level it does check out. California's almond orchards use something like 4.2 billion gallons of water a day, and the country's golf courses about 1.4 billion, while every data center in America put together uses roughly 46 million. By that math almonds out-drink data centers close to 90 to 1. The catch is that those are national totals, and a national total doesn't tell a Memphis or Southaven neighbor much about the one aquifer under their own feet. That's why I think your instinct to compare closer to home is the better one.
Poultry is our largest industry, and a processing plant uses six to seven gallons of water per bird, which puts a big plant in the same daily range as a data center's cooling system. Nobody pickets the poultry plant. And our Delta row crops pull more than 12 billion gallons a day out of the alluvial aquifer, which has been in measured overdraft for decades.
None of that makes the water question disappear. But it does argue for holding data centers to the same standard we hold our own industries, no looser and no tighter.
Thanks for sending this. I dug into it. Liberty Utilities, which serves about 49,000 customers on the California side of Lake Tahoe, buys most of its electricity wholesale from NV Energy, and NV Energy is ending that arrangement, partly because of data center growth in northern Nevada.
But the headline oversells it. Nobody is losing power. Liberty just has to line up a new supplier, and it is already doing that.
One issue is their dependence on "renewable energy" when a power grid is built on unreliable energy they produce their own problems. This is exactly why our Mississippi politicians should not bypass the Public Service Commission. If we allow the destruction of reliable energy like, natural gas or nuclear then we will be in the same situation. But, we don't have to be in that situation.
Your ignorance is really showing in this one. WE DON'T NEED OR WANT DATA CENTERS. This is just another step in the new world order the elites are planning for the sheep. This country needs a second revolution, and when the average joe doesn't have water or electricity because the data centers have taken it all, maybe then we'll see one.
Have you done a deep dive into the harm the Data Center does? Resources are finite and will the amount used affect the local citizens bills? How many jobs do they actually create? Do we have people with the skill set needed to work at Data Center? How will this affect the health for citizen’s nearby? What is their real purpose? Many more questions. Do we actually want a controlled grid to record our every move?
I had not read your previous substack and see you addressed some of the concerns I mentioned. Some states have already included parameters for building. Not sure our state can do that with our legislatures. Still more questions. Thank you.
I agree about NOT USING PUBLIC FUNDS FOR PRIVATE VENTURES. Plus our natural resources are finite and must be used and conservatives wisely.
Thanks for the four part series. It helped me see the bigger picture here in Mississippi. Have you seen the comparison of data centers to Almonds and golf courses wrt water usage and economic output? Don't know if that's accurate but might be interesting to compare data centers with poultry processing or cotton.
That's a good suggestion, and it sent me down a rabbit hole.
I found the almonds and golf course comparison, and at the national level it does check out. California's almond orchards use something like 4.2 billion gallons of water a day, and the country's golf courses about 1.4 billion, while every data center in America put together uses roughly 46 million. By that math almonds out-drink data centers close to 90 to 1. The catch is that those are national totals, and a national total doesn't tell a Memphis or Southaven neighbor much about the one aquifer under their own feet. That's why I think your instinct to compare closer to home is the better one.
Poultry is our largest industry, and a processing plant uses six to seven gallons of water per bird, which puts a big plant in the same daily range as a data center's cooling system. Nobody pickets the poultry plant. And our Delta row crops pull more than 12 billion gallons a day out of the alluvial aquifer, which has been in measured overdraft for decades.
None of that makes the water question disappear. But it does argue for holding data centers to the same standard we hold our own industries, no looser and no tighter.
Came across this article- alarming- Can this happen to us? How many can live off grid? Data Centers take priority on energy.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/general/almost-50-000-lake-tahoe-residents-face-power-cutoff-after-their-energy-source-looks-to-redirect-to-data-centers/ar-AA237iZl
Thanks for sending this. I dug into it. Liberty Utilities, which serves about 49,000 customers on the California side of Lake Tahoe, buys most of its electricity wholesale from NV Energy, and NV Energy is ending that arrangement, partly because of data center growth in northern Nevada.
But the headline oversells it. Nobody is losing power. Liberty just has to line up a new supplier, and it is already doing that.
One issue is their dependence on "renewable energy" when a power grid is built on unreliable energy they produce their own problems. This is exactly why our Mississippi politicians should not bypass the Public Service Commission. If we allow the destruction of reliable energy like, natural gas or nuclear then we will be in the same situation. But, we don't have to be in that situation.
Stick the data center where you are stashing your Palantir money!