Faking “Water Bankruptcy” Part 1: Data Centres
Kit Knightly
We are currently witnessing the birth of a new psy-op targeting our most vital natural resource – water. And in the coming series of articles we’ll be breaking down every aspect of this emerging agenda.
The chosen label for this new fear-as-control exercise is “water bankruptcy” . It’s a name originating in a UN report published earlier this year.
The decades old grumbling rumours of a “water crisis” just weren’t scary enough you see, so just as global warming became “climate change”, and then “global heating”, and now “global boiling” – so this “crisis” is rebooted as something irresistibly alarming.
The language alone is the first indicator of what we really have here.
The broad stroke of the “water bankruptcy” narrative is:
1. The planet is running out of clean, safe drinking water
2. Climate change and the rise of AI are causing this problem,
…and – of course –
3. We really need to do something about it.
The fast developing and dark reality is a plan that will use deliberately instilled fear of water shortages to manufacture fake water shortages, and then police, commodify and monetize the global water supply in the name of “water security”.
It’s the next big psy-op evolving before our eyes, and in this series we’ll be covering every aspect of it:
– “Climate change” propaganda,
– Proposed legislative “solutions”
– The role of surveillance technology, and
– The inevitable financial pay-outs for the private sector.
Today, in part one of this series, we’ll be looking at what seems to be a tent pole of this emerging narrative – Data centres.
Very recently we have seen the emergence of a rash of media scare stories on data centres. Claims about their energy consumption and water usage are suddenly flooding the information marketplace.
This is an odd development because data centres would seem to represent the very beating heart of the surveillance state these outlets routinely promote.
The stories range from the mildly critical, as in this piece from the Times:
Surge in data centres set to push water bills even higher
To the slightly concerned, such as this from the BBC:
Scottish data centres powering AI already using enough water to fill 27 million bottles a year
To the quasi-apocalyptic, such as this offering from the ever-hysterical Guardian:
What you see here is a wetland without water’: how the datacentre boom is exacerbating Chile’s mega-drought
Or this from Al Jazeera:
AI’s growing thirst for water is becoming a public health risk
It’s no different in the US, where headlines like this…
America’s AI Boom Is Running Into An Unplanned Water Problem
Or this…
AI Is Accelerating the Loss of Our Scarcest Natural Resource: Water
…are proliferating rapidly.
Yes, bizarre as it seems the establishment media are attacking the reputation of establishment data centres.
And it gets even odder when you look a little closer – because virtually all the scare stories they are publishing are either wildy exaggerated, decontextualised or simply NOT TRUE.
So, what is the reality quotient here?
Let’s take a look. This Reuters article headlines:
AI to double data centre power and water consumption by 2030
The trouble is it gives no context for what that “doubling” means in comparative terms.
It cites the fact that data centres use “4.5 trillion liters per year” – and that does sound like a lot, but when we retrieve the missing context we find that total amount of water used annually by human beings is around 4 quadrillion litres, almost 1000x times as much.
Meaning data centres currently account for just ~0.1% of global water usage.
Sure a 2025 report estimated US-based data centres used 449 million gallons of water per day, it didn’t mention that manufacturing uses 15 billion, over thirty times as much, while the energy sector uses closer to 100 billion.
So, that scary-seeming “doubling by 2030” the UN mentioned means data centres will be accounting for just 0.2% of global water usage by 2030 – and that’s supposing all domestic, agricultural and industrial usage stays exactly the same in that time (which, of course, they won’t).
Whatever we may think of data centres as a tool of Big Brother, it’s still true that, in terms of environmental impact, farming, manufacturing and energy production all use many times more water than they do.
The press also go out of their way to muddy the distinction between “direct water use” and “indirect water use”.
Brief explanation about this:
Direct water use would be the water you use to drink, cook, clean or bathe.
Indirect water use is the water used to grow the food you eat or manufacture your clothes.
This is a clear distinction that the mainstream media have been disregarding when talking about the “water footprint” of data centres.
They routinely include indirect usage such as “water used in the production of energy” (eg. to cool nuclear power stations or in thermoelectric plants etc.) or in the manufacturing chips and other parts as part of the data centres’ direct usage.
See the recent report “Water-guzzling data centres”, from Oxford University [emphasis added]:
Water directly used for cooling is what most data centre operators focus on, but the largest source of water usage is actually electricity generation. This comes from how water is heated to generate steam which turns a turbine and generates electricity. Fossil fuels and nuclear power all consume water in this way, and even hydroelectric power involves some water loss from reservoirs.
Blaming data centres for water lost from hydroelectric dam reservoirs because they use some of the electricity produced? Does that make sense? And is this standard applied to every industry?
These and other misrepresentations are very well broken down in this post by Andy Masley. I recommend it to anyone interested in unpicking this strange story.
For example, it is commonly believed that data centres poison ground water – but again this is a distortion, because while they can can concentrate contaminants already present in the water via evaporation, or they can add cleaning and anti-scaling chemicals this is something common to virtually all industrial processes and coolant systems. There’s nothing unique about the way data centres do this.
It’s also true that many AI data centres use no water at all. Between 10% and 25% of operational data centres run air-cooling systems using refrigeration gasses (this number was much higher as recently as 2024, but many have switched because liquid cooling uses substantially less electricity). And many water-cooled centres use a closed loop system that reuses water repeatedly and treat it on site.
And no – I’m not going to bat for big tech here or volunteering to down a pint of coolant run off. I’m just reporting the fact that your average data centre is no better or worse for the water supply than most industrial sectors, and in fact uses far less water than most.
The really important question here is – why are the media torturing the statistics and definitions to create fear headlines about something so entrenched in the governmental control system?
And in fact not just the media. This strange narrative construction extends beyond the press or governmental reports and into live-action political theatre.
Witness the absurd spectacle of Alexandra Ocasio Cortez waving a jam jar full of mud around congress, screaming that data centers are making water unfit to drink:
During a House hearing with Assistant EPA Administrator Jessica Kramer on Wednesday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) pulled out two jars of brown water she said was taken near a Meta data center in Morgan County, Georgia, after it was constructed.
AOC went on to describe… pic.twitter.com/fEWpVPpuYs
— CBS News (@CBSNews) May 22, 2026
Is that water even from Georgia any more than Colin Powell’s test tube contained anthrax? It doesn’t matter and she doesn’t know, it was just handed to her before she went on stage, and for anyone interested, the actual details of the case are that a local well may have suffered sediment build up thanks to digging/construction work. It has literally nothing to do with the data centre’s usage of water – because he thing wasn’t actually operational yet.
Veteran campaigner Erin Brockovich has also joined the crusade, starting up a registry of data centres for the whole country.
A new report from the UN is “warning” (reports always “warn”) about the AI boom and the resources – especially land and water – that it’s using.
Multiple states or localities of the US are trying to ban the construction of data centres, mostly because of their “guzzling” water. This first one passed yesterday. According to a recent poll, most Americans would rather live near a nuclear reactor than a data centre.
Even Pope Leo XIV – yes, his High Holiness himself – is warning the faithful about AI data centres and the “enormous amounts of energy and water” they use.
Maybe these latter high profile contributions begin to offer some clue as to why the mainstream is demonising one of its own major tools.
AI data centers are ruining the water – something needs to be done about it.
And in case we had any doubts that this is where the ‘scary data centre’ narrative is going, Chatham House is here to really lay it out for you:
AI water usage requires governments to rethink their approach to water
…so what exactly does “rethinking our approach to water” mean?
We’ll discuss that later in the series.
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Chatham House recommending govts “rethink their approach to water” is fucking ominous. I think you’re right and something major, is coming our way.
Mandatory smart water meters? Perma-rationing? Water-permits tied to citizenry rating through your digital ID?
In the UK and other wet/temperate zones the idea of serious permanent water shortage is laughable – but people will probably be persuaded to believe it. Because most people are panicky unintelligent fools. .
Well… With temperatures of 23 C shown as crimson-red on weather maps for the past few years and the media screaming, in unison, Apocalypse!, Boiling Planet!, etc., I think we can all agree that the UN declaring a climate emergency a.k.a. permanent lockdown can happen any day now. Look up the C4 initiative (basically, all of the world’s major cities agreeing to ‘no meat, no coffee, no flying, no driving, etc.’) and a host of other 2030 targets (like phasing out nearly all airports).
Here’s another “mainstream media” article that goes against the author’s contention that the mainstream media is conducting a psy-op about data center water usage, i.e., it fucking agrees with the author and his sycophants that it’s not an issue and we all should support them.
Op-Ed: Data centers aren’t draining the Mountain West
Where’s Part 2, man?
The fact some msm are defending data centres doesn’t change the fact that large numbers are attacking them – and often for made up or oversimplified reasons.
And Kit doesn’t defend them – he just points out a lot of the critiques are based on false or misleading data- which is just a fact.
You can criticise a basically bad or undesirable thing for the wrong reasons – and when the msm does that we should ask why, which is what this excellent article is doing.
I agree with you on one thing though – we need part2
Like I’ve said, I can find ten articles to very one, at least, that defend them. Kit is cherry picking to support a theory.
No, Al, I’m afraid you’re continuing to miss the point. The question is why are ANY of the the msm attacking data centres at all, and especially why are they doing it with made up or oversimplified “facts”?
And I don’t see Kit putting across any theory, not so far anyhow. I see him presenting some curious developments we need to be aware of.
As with the digital id scam, we can be sure the ptb don’t give a damn about any environmental impacts, so what is the real reason they are mobilising mainstream outlets to whip up fear?
There’s obviously some angle being played and they are trying to whip up hysteria about data centres for some purpose, almost certainly not a good one.
That’s the point.
I am firmly against these data centers because I am firmly against technocratic dystopia and all the rich motherfuckers planning and implementing it and them. I take a hard line, anything that excuses them, which I see in this article and many of the comments, I am against. I’m not going to change that. Period. Many of the comments here are literally saying they (the data centers) do good things and are needed and are getting many thumbs up. Read the one a couple comments below by someone named Nancy. That’s my fucking point and that’s from someone that has never loaded an “ap”, used social media (except Facebook sometimes to keep up with old classmates), and only use a cell phone because there aren’t any more phone booths. If people on here want to give that a thumbs down for that stance, which they do, then fuck them. That’s my point. The truth will come out just like with most everything.
And he damn well is presenting a theory, he’s saying the entire MSM is in on a psy-op to control our water, when they can do that whenever the fuck they want anyway, by blaming it on data centers. I happen to know that a good percentage of those in individual communities fighting against these things primarily because of the real water and power issues, also know full well what the technocrats reaI long term intentions are. I’ve done my research on that. We have a large group in my community (Tri-cities Washington, look it up) organized to protest against them and I’ve seen the comments. So I think this MSM psy-op theory is actually fighting against people who are opposed to the data centers, unlike it seems, many that frequent this blog. I look forward to the next installment, but obviously, I’ll stay away from commenting. People here just don’t want to hear anything that isn’t in line with the groupthink. No debates, just thumbs down.
But I should thank you for the discussion.
The controlled alt media (think Grayzone, Mintpress) will be pushing the water crisis fear porn in tandem with the mainstream, just with different emphasis.
Two flavors of poison. End result the same.
This is the new reality of “alt media” with a few brave exceptions, like OG, Geopolitics & Empire, Corbett. Honestly can’t think of any more right now.
The “data centres stole all the water” story is one of the lamest tales in recent memory. From what I’ve seen it’s mostly being pushed by groups generally aligned with the philosophy of this website as a way to highlight the hypocrisy of the eco movement.
Here in Spain the food production at the entire Andalucian coast (of which 80% is exported within Europe) they use reversed osmosis to de-salinate the water, take the salt out. It is then moved inland through a pipeline infrastructure. More then enough water from the sea for industrial use. Don’t touch the drinking water…..
The irrational hysteria about data centers reminds me of the whole covid madness. Most people don’t even know what data centers are or what they do , they just respond to the panic signals and run around like headless chickens.
Data centers come in many different flavors and most of them just offer up services like internet hosting, email hosting, cloud hosting. Any large amount of public access information is hosted on servers in a data center. Internet archives are hosted on servers in data centers, and 90% of websites, including most alternative media sites, are hosted on servers in data centers. This website is probably hosted on a server in a data center.
I don’t know why the media is giving the impression all data centers are AI generators or why they want people to hate and fear all data centers but it’s very strange and suspicious, and also depressing that people are so easily manipulated into panic and hysteria.
I appreciate this article as an antidote to the tide of nonsense being pumped out
The National Review, ultra neocon magazine, agrees with you. You’re in good company, either that or you work for them.
In defense of data centers
Actually they don’t agree with me. But ok, let’s try to have a rational conversation here.
Can we start by establishing what data centers are and what they do, and then move on to what needs to be done about them.
So, what is a data center? You don’t agree with my definition given above, what’s yours?
And if the places that house the majority of websites, web archives, email servers etc are not to be called data centers (I’m fine with that if you are), what name do we give them?
What name? Evil technocratic dystopia centers. Try a little Whitney Webb, she’s nailed what they are and why pretty well. No sense in trying to explain that here, this place’s mind is made up.
But I would disagree with your assertion that there is “irrational hysteria” about these things, that sounds like a purposeful framing from the technocrats similar to painting everyone who disagrees with any establishment narrative (like the National Review’s above) as crazy tinfoil hat conspiracy theorists, like those of us that knew and wrote or said the Covid-19 pandemic was a scam. And it isn’t comparable to the Covid-19 madness because that madness was about people falling for a scam and in this case, they aren’t. Maybe not all for the right reason, but nonetheless.
I notice you didn’t answer any of Nancy’s very good questions.
1) What do you think data centres actually do?
2) if all data centres are bad and evil, what do you call the places that store useful data such as the Wayback Machine, webhosting for personal websites, shops, schools, hospitals, emergency services, museums etc?
There you go, that’s my point. It’s not necessarily what they do at this point, it’s what they’re going to do. Off Guardian and its readers end up defending them. Check out the link with Palantir, Peter Thiel, Zuckerberg and Meta, etc. Do a deep dive on it They and others are the technocrats this place rails against and they are behind it. What do you think we’ve done before this onslaught of data centers and why do you think it’s become so huge? It’s not to host your personal blog. These things are the foundation for the technocratic dystopia this place pretends to rail against. Where else do you think they’re going to put all this data they’re collecting on everyone. It’s like propaganda, they throw in some truth, or in this case, some things people think are good, but the overall result and intent is far different. They throw in a little pudding and everyone eats the tainted meat. It’s a slippery slope and every inch we give them tightens the noose even more.
It doesn’t matter anyway, we’re not stopping it or their control of water or their control of anything for that matter.
See how I get the thumbs down for calling them “evil technocratic dystopia centers”? I think that’s a little weird coming from a place like this.
They already control our fucking water supply. Anything that puts into people’s heads that these data centers have some usefulness and that they aren’t as bad as many people believe, which this article and author have done, is dangerous and traitorous to freedom from technocratic dystopia. Here you are diverting the focus away from these virtual foundations for that dystopia to something that is already in place. I’m looking forward to the next installment to the series to see how you tie in that fact with your “theory” about the fucking mainstream media, again. I won’t comment in it, don’t worry, this is last article I’ll comment in here, hopefully, but if I have something to say, I’ll do it in this one until it’s deleted.
Fuck all you people supporting these things, seriously. And I’m saying this because I’m pissed after having done some research on them. Get some balls, man. Any inch given to these data centers is antithetical to freedom.
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https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2026/06/09/elon-musk-reveals-plans-for-orbital-ai-data-centers-ahead-of-spacex-ipo/
“Elon Musk offered a detailed glimpse into SpaceX’s planned orbital AI data centers as the company prepares for what could be the largest IPO in history this week.
..
Musk has consistently promoted the concept of orbital data centers for training and operating advanced AI systems. His rationale centers on two primary advantages: the abundance of solar energy available in space and the ability to circumvent the community opposition that has increasingly complicated terrestrial data center developments.“
Pictures of the data center look just like pictures of the riots in Southampton.
FAKE
I appreciated this laying out of fact rather than overheated and decontextualized fear-generation. But what a puzzle! Why on earth is the legacy media gunning for data centres!
They have something up their sleeve don’t they. They are riding the public worry about AI etc and once we are all on their bandwagon they will change direction and flip the narrative somehow!
It’s absolutely about getting our permission to control the water supplies. But why?!
Easy. $$ and €€.
Here’s something you can use, Kit, in your next installment.
“In a post on TikTok, architect creator dr.proboscis (@dr.proboscis) recounted a workplace meeting about defending data centers’ water use in the context of golf courses’ water use.”
‘Out of touch’: Architect says firm told staff to compare data center water use to golf courses
PRIMARY WATER is not a theory; I visited one of the wells.
“Juvenile Water — original water, formed as a result of magmatic processes. Juvenile water has never been in the atmosphere. Magmatic water can form in very large quantities. A magma body with a density of 2.5, an assumed water content of 5% by weight, a thickness of 1 kilometer, and an area of 10 square kilometers contains some 1.25 x 10 to the 9th power cubic meters of water.”
Oxford — “A Dictionary of Earth Sciences”
Global Resource Alliance has drilled over 80 boreholes to primary water at various depths, in Tanzania, installing handpumps that enable villagers to have easy access to clean water that is free of disease causing microbes, parasites, and surface contaminants.
Why cant I find any info on the m or km drilling depth on these “in depth holes”?
Their description about African women saved from crocodile and bandits by these drillings shows us it is all about convenience.
When water is too far away and people has to go a few hundred meters or km to get it, they howl.
There is thus plenty of water, not “lack of water resources”, only laziness.
Second remark. As you know I am a believer. God says he is a God for the living, not God for anything related to death.
The rain and the sweet water is designed to give everything alive on earth life, vegetables, animals humans, living microbes you name it.
Ok so scientists found another water resource deeep down there in a black hole?
Ok, its ok, but……its just not such a fantastic miracle yes no. It is not that surprising as convenience to us when the pre-design already made it. With all respect.
The whole corporate “sustainability” crowd is pushing science-based nature targets (openly sponsored by the Rockefellers) and “ecosystem services.” Clearly, the goal is to ring-fence and commodify all of natural resources so that the BlackRocks of this world can package and sell them to us at premium prices. Want more than a 30-second shower? Pay – an arm and a leg. Want to take a walk in the woods? Pay. Sooner or later they will find a way to charge us for the air we breathe. Triumphantly capped by everyone’s un-selfish euthanasia the minute they reached 60.
Couple this with the carbon tax that will soon be imposed on EU households (= driving, heating – all punished), and it won’t be long before Europe’s middle classes, certainly, find themselves in the Middle Ages – four generations hunkered down in one room, basking in the tepid warmth of an approved earth pump; eating insects and ‘fermented fruit scraps’. Want to have a baby – make yourself a digital avatar in a meta space; and even that will no doubt cost a bomb.
And AOC the rich Sephardic architect’s daughter promoting anything through her demented antics (remember the Tax The Rich T-shirt?) just screams psy-op.
If only the rich got taxed there would be peace on this planet. This is my opinion and there is nothing you can do about it to change it!
I bet I can change your opinion:
The rich are only the projected shadow of the peasants desires.
Why do you think so many of them are pedophiles, cannibals, genocidal maniacs etc?
Taxing the shadow won’t help but I suggest that a cathartic excision of the shadow (featuring some hangings) would definitely help most people recover theis senses.
Yes, they are buying up water and water rights. But knowledge of and use of Primary water would remove this one arrow from their bow.
https://primarywaterinstitute.org/evidence.html
They will buy them too. Why shouldnt they?
Must admit I was sucked in & believed the articles I have read about the massive water usage of these IA Data centers. A very interesting article .
bs data centers are water vaccumns
Please add some punctuation
How about, Bullshit, data centers are water vacuums, period, the end.
but the statistics show they are not water vacuums in comparison with other consumers. I checked out the figures (I always do) and they stand up. No one is claiming data centres use anything more than 0.2% of global consumption. Which raises the big question of why the mainstream have started targeting them!
I think we all agree the plan is not to turn off all the data centres so at some stage they will flip the script and use the momentum they have created for some unexpected and nefarious end! (imo)
The comparison is totally skewed and does not take into account individual communities or the ultimate reason for these technocratic dystopian centers. Anyone supporting them should immediately go lick Donald Trump’s toes. The idea that the mainstream is targeting them is being used to promote a conspiracy theory to reverse the opposition, i.e., data centers are not as bad as golf courses, therefore we shouldn’t worry about a thing.
But this is so irrational! For one thing I don’t see anyone defending data centres so much as just trying to get some facts straight.
Whether we like data centres or not we can’t ignore the fact the mainstream are attacking them and obviously want us to hate and fear them. So why? They must have some motive to whip up the hatred and it becomes very important for us to get our facts straight and not be carried along by their initiative.
Like you say the facts are skewed but you don’t give me any other facts so how can I tell if you are right?
It would be helpful if you could put the facts you have against those in the article so we can try to figure out the truth here.
Thirdly, not all data centres are the same, are they? Some do important jobs in keeping emergency services and other things functioning. Some are hosting websites and things. What if we get goaded in to demanding they all shut down and suddenly we are in hardship with real shortages?
Could this be their plan?
I could find you ten “mainstream” articles, at least, that support and justify these things for every one the author could find that seemingly attack them. And yes, all data centers are the same because in the end, regardless what some of the purported benefits or needs might be, pretty much all, as documented by the mainstream media itself, are a big part of the technocratic dystopia being shoved down our throats. And then there is the issue that they do in fact consume water and power resources that are heavily impacting many communities. There is no chance any demands from the people are going to shut these things down, especially when we’re working against each other.
My goodness. I certainly found a way to rouse the trolls from underneath their rocks, didn’t I? I should respond to them all, so that they can make a quarter for each of my responses.
Just a thought. If you live in a small town. And you like it. And it is pleasant. And they take all your water away to cool 51 nearby data centers–you are not going to be easily swayed by any .01 percent statistic. Because, to you, the statistic is 100 percent.
Worldwide statistics are rather silly and pointless. All politics is local.
So what are you saying? Heavy industry uses far more power and water than a data centre and no one wants to live close to a steel mill or a sewage farm, so should we close them all down or what?
Apparently there are only around 12,000 data centres currently globally compared to however many millions of industrial sites. So proportionally the energy consumed by these data centres would appear to be high compared to industry. Furthermore, the majority of the data centres are relatively small-scale with only around 1,000 hyperscalers constructed to date (occupying footprints of >10000 square feet); so localised impact of such hyperscale developments are pretty significant wouldn’t you think?
Also worth considering the spatial distribution of data centres for additional context:
https://www.cargoson.com/en/blog/number-of-data-centers-by-country
Thought control establishing our free speech zone. Here’s controversy assigned us so we may rattle the bars of our (digital) cage in ritual performance of Demokracy, Inc. as that’s currently being replaced by techno-totalitarian control, courtesy of such top-down decisions as AI algogarchy. A limited hangout to focus attention on our role as consumers of ‘services’ supplied us by our benevolent dictators, so as to deflect attention from the war on humanity underway.
By the time the manufactured water crisis and its problems begging for solutions is set straight by our benefactors by means of the very private-public partnerships which will preside over new normal slavery, lo and behold a much more developed digital public infrastructure, in which we are mere parts of the machinery, will have been completed underwater or under cover of water as psywar. At that point, we may be up to our necks if not drowning in dystopia.
Also wonder whether geoengineering will lend a helping hand to all this.
I don’t know. I’d say, with these stories, the media are simply using a different tactic to hype up AI and ramp up the fear level about AI, like it’s some kind of uncontrollable monster. Look at how many stories there are about alleged AI on every newspaper home page. Water is incidental in this, and it’s worth noting that summer ‘hose-pipe bans’ have been a feature throughout most people’s lives here in the UK, with climate alarmism (this dates from long before ‘climate change’ was a thing) basically a cover for incompetence and greed from the water authorities/companies on the one hand, and overpopulation on the other, neither of which governments want to address.
Randomly strayed back to Off-Guardian. Generally, disappointed anymore. Sometimes you have to wonder. Many years ago I attended an “event” of sorts and sat through a program presented By Gerould Wilhelm. A former Army Corp of Engineers engineer and coauthor of the Book, Flora of the Chicago Region. He participated in the creation of the Floristic Quality Index (FQI) which has become a standard of sorts in identifying “quality” natural areas by assigning them a numerical score. Smart guy. Real smart guy. Impressively smart. Then there was Gene Likens who had identified the Water Crisis where he produced compelling evidence in a PBS produced documentary. Mind blowing. I became friends of sorts with Gerry and his coauthor who was married to a very good friend. Both were also colleagues. Laura Rericha. With no formal education she set the standard on what I will call “relational botany” Floyd Swink, the original author the the Flora of the Chicago Region and mentor of Laura, liked to focus on “associates”. Associated plants, that is. Laura took that concept one step further and developed the associated ants. Kind of crazy. In a very short time she became the go to person on ants. Anyway, knowing and working with these people changed my life completely. But that program of Gerry’s I attended in about 1985 was mind blowing. It was about fresh water. In college I had to make a choice about what direction to go with my masters. I chose aquatics. Not an expert by any stretch, but I spent my last 10 years in my job restoring wetlands. I learned a little along the way. The program Gerry did was integral to the development of my mindset. Swirling around in the back of my mind was the Likens documentary (which I purchased a transcript of and stuck in on my shelf and never referred to again because it was already in permanent storage in my brain). It got stuck there and refuses to leave. Even now as I age, it is stuck. But I still have to wonder. With all the indicators everywhere, someone comes along and suggests that we are not in a water crisis. I am not even going to attempt it. Just off the top of my head, it would take a week of summarizing it. What the fuck. Sometimes you have to wonder.
And so, what are you saying? Are you saying there is a water crisis or there isn’t?
And what if there is a water crisis in your hometown because a data center took all of your water away, but not in some other town? Should you move? Was it really a crisis if no more water comes out of your own tap? Or just a minor nothing?
You tell me. The evidence is everywhere. Like I said. Where does one start. Start with Likens.
It is funny. The problem is as plain as day. Then someone comes along and suggests it is all a conspiracy designed to create a false alarm. Then you disagree and you are instantly shunned. Kind of like the Amish or a Scientologist. I disagree wholeheartedly. We are in so much trouble regarding water shortages that it is mind boggling. Everywhere you look. Take Lake Mead. Look it up. Las Vegas. Look it up. Fucking look it up. Just fucking look it up. All of it. Fucking look it up. There is no argument anyone can make to disagree. None. None at all. Zero argument. And I thought that Kit was more sensible. Why should I need to spell it out? All of our fresh water sources are finite and we are using them faster than they can be recharged. That’s not good enough? You need specific details? Really. Name a resource. Pick one. Any one. Only the answer won’t be the result of slight of hand. Not the Jack of Hearts. Not an Ace of Spades. The key word is finite. How do you address that? What part of this can’t anyone understand? Seriously. What part is too vague? LOOK IT UP. Damn. Sorry Kit. Just look at the bath tub ring on Lake Mead. You don’t think that can happen to the Great Lakes? The Mississippi River. The Ohio. Snake. Missouri. Name a river that isn’t finite. Name an aquifer that isn’t finite. Name a lake that isn’t finite. Some time in the future we are going to decide whether the lives of people are more important that the lives of plants and animals in a water source. It is inevitable. What part of that don’t you understand? Geeze. You are stupid if you cannot understand that. Fuck you.
Amen.
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I suggest, whenever government says it’s gonna do something to protect the public, hide your valuables (water, food, cash,…) and start home schooling.
Some mainframes have been water cooled for 65 years. There is no reason to allow them to use flowing water, and no reason it has to be poisonous if they did. They definitely don’t ‘consume’ water:
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/getting-into-hot-water/
Mega transformers manage to be oil cooled with forced air heat exchange when it gets really nasty – like shorting 3 x 30kV arc melting rods into molten steel:
This is from a moron sheep called Stooge below. (Does he have two brothers maybe?)
“Data centers are there to incipit Skynet.”
Yeah that’s right, dudes. That’s what data centers do. All of them. They DON’T do a whole slew of different things, some useful, some essential, some good some bad, some nefarious. Nope, they all -ALL – ‘incipit Skynet’. You heard it right from Stooge and can take it to the bank. But he’s not done with the wisdom pearls yet, he goes on :
“Whether they use water is beside the point”.
So, yeah those water scare stories are BS but that’s irrelevant – because there’s other fear porn about data centers he still 100% believes! Eg :
“they plan to ramp up fracking to power the bastards.”
It doesn’t occur to him the energy scare story might be as bogus as the water scare story, because he has no real logic framework for analyzing context or assessing probabilities, He just believes his trusted media until someone shoves his face in the real facts. No one has done that about the energy fear porn yet, so he continues believing.
He doesn’t know how much energy data centers consume, he just knows it must be GAZILLIONS – like more than anything else on the planet, because they need to frack harder and open up defunct nuke power stations – just to keep them going!
And this programmed drone thinks he’s part of the resistance.
Spoiler – “data centers” use about 1-3% of all the energy used on the planet – and that’s a maximum estimate.
And another 0.5% for Bitcoin transactions. Which don’t actually buy anything or do anything meaningful in the Global economy, it’s just a bunch of wanna-get-rich gamblers shuffling the magic beans back and forward between themselves.
The number of transactions back and forth isn’t than great either, nothing like the CC volume. But as the blockchain, which by design incorporates every single transaction since inception has grown in length, so now it takes enormous computing power just for a single block.
0.5% of all the electricity generated on the planet! Everything about this modern world is insane!
Precisely. Suckers who dont contribute to any civilisation are being praised and hailed and awarded.
Hmmm, 1-3% is significant if it’s a new draw on the existing grid.
“…all the energy used on the planet” – context please? Without snarky putdowns preferred.
1-3% is 1-3% whether it’s “new” or not. If you’re using 97% of your electricity on powering your old model railroad, and 3% on your new fridge that does not make your fridge a “signficant” drain on your power.
Obviously, it is about sowing apocalyptic panic of “covid pandemic” type in order to deceive us into accepting the decision, a kind of “anti-data centers vaccine”, to introduce water rations, or even worst – abandonment of centers and civilization collapse, chaos.. And the naive immediatly get on the hook. “Skynet is comming!” they shout in horror.
It is very important, as has been repeatedly emphasized here, where the rumors comes from – from the establishment itself and its mainstream who sold us the “pandemic”, “mask and vaccines helps”, and “there will lockdowns until vaccination level rise”, regular booster doses… so it cannot be true. The reliability of the source in crucial.
Therefore I feel lucky that person like Mr. Masley was foud who revealed the fraud to us. Who is he? We need to get to know him.
On his andymasley dot com website, he begins his short biography with:
“I’m a independent writer and researcher funded by a grant from the Coefficient Giving to explore topics in AI and other areas” and more “Since March 2026 I’ve been writing full-time on a grant from Coefficient Giving”
From their wiki page, we read that Coeficient Giving is the new name of Open Philantropy, founded by Dustin Moskowitz, (co-founder of Facebook (Zuckerberg), which is based on a Pentagon mass surveillance development, that was shut down on the same day Facebook launched).
And more, from their wiki: as of June 2025, they have provided over 4 billion grants includung to pandemic preparednes and potencial risk of advanced AI. Moskowitz and his wife Cari Tuna became the younges couple to sign Bill Gates and Warren Buffet’s Giving Pledge. Bill Gates has referred to the organisation as “a fantastic partner in high-impact giving”.
“Funds” – “Biosecurity and pandemuc preparedness”:
“includes support for disease surveillance..
..Notable grantees include the Bipartisan Commision on Biodefense, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, and the WHO.
The Navigating Transformative AI fund: “… The organizations believes that artifical general inteligence could “soon outperform humans in nearly all cognitive domains”, which could “benefit people enormously” or “pose serious risks from misuse, accidents, lose of control and other problems”.
Little from their website coefficientgiving dot org: Featured grants: Using AI to create more effective vaccines.
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andymasley dot com (Andy Masley’s Substack) – Archieve (scroll down)… article “Always mask at airports”, October 31, 2025, quotes:
“Throughout COVID, I was always very careful to mask, and spen ttime telling friends and collegues to by high-quality N95 masks. I was a teacher and when school got back in I was careful to mask until I and the students had all had a chance to get vaccinated. It was pretty obvious that the trade-off made masking worth it before we had an effective vaccine.
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Getting the vaccine was pretty transcedent. Since then, I don’t mask in public unless I’m sick, because I see the vaccine as equivalent to wearing an N95 all the time anyway… Find one that works to you to have around in case thre’s another pandemic (which AI might make more likely).
..The most important thing is obviously keeping up with COVID booster shots. “
That was what I was doing.
During the Covid scenario I had mask on everywhere, and everywhere I told people that I wanted to pull my pants down and do everything my government was telling me I should do.
In this way my government could track me and see hiii hee hoo here is a nice guy who are alwaus doing what we are telling him to do.
This guy should have more from our Open Philantropy Fund.
This way I succeeded to not only maintain a good foot with Gates Funds, Suckerberg Funds, but also my government’s Funds, and on top I earned a buck in the Corona period.
Only by being a good citizen, in contradiction to certain bad citizens who only want revolution in our society!
Fiery word, mio amico Christian. That’s how it’s done! (We need to protect our Christian Western society from evil viruses as vigilantly as Schmeichel guarded the red devils’ door.) You have always been my example.
I wonder what these 7 people reacted to (probably at least another 70 who did not put a minus or a plus)? I don’t mind – I actually prefer 77 red thumbs – I’m just curious, tell me what you reacted to? Maybe the indirect connections (difficulty)? Now I see a slight inaccuracy in one of the links – let me fix it (and add exact addresses).
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“Therefore I feel lucky that person like Mr. Masley was foud who revealed the fraud to us. Who is he? We need to get to know him.
On his https://www.andymasley.com/ website, he begins his short biography with:
“I’m a independent writer and researcher funded by a grant from the Coefficient Giving to explore topics in AI and other areas” and more “Since March 2026 I’ve been writing full-time on a grant from Coefficient Giving”
From their wiki page, we read that Coefficient Giving is the new name of Open Philanthropy, founded by Dustin Moskowitz, (co-founder of Facebook (Zuckerberg), which is based on a Pentagon mass surveillance development, that was shut down on the same day Facebook launched).
And more, from their wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coefficient_Giving : as of June 2025, they have provided over 4 billion grants includung to pandemic preparednes and potencial risk of advanced AI. Moskowitz and his wife Cari Tuna became the younges couple to sign Bill Gates and Warren Buffet’s Giving Pledge. Bill Gates has referred to the organisation as “a fantastic partner in high-impact giving”.
“Funds” – “Biosecurity and pandemuc preparedness”:
“includes support for disease surveillance..
..Notable grantees include the Bipartisan Commision on Biodefense, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, and the WHO.
The Navigating Transformative AI fund: “… The organizations believes that artifical general inteligence could “soon outperform humans in nearly all cognitive domains”, which could “benefit people enormously” or “pose serious risks from misuse, accidents, lose of control and other problems”.
Little from their website https://coefficientgiving.org/: Featured grants: Using AI to create more effective vaccines.
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https://blog.andymasley.com (Andy Masley’s Substack) – https://blog.andymasley.com/archive (scroll down)… article “Always mask at airports”, October 31, 2025, https://blog.andymasley.com/p/always-mask-in-airports , quotes:
“Throughout COVID, I was always very careful to mask, and spent time telling friends and colleagues to buy high-quality N95 masks. I was a teacher, and when school got back in I was careful to mask until I and the students had all had a chance to get vaccinated. It was pretty obvious that the trade-offs made masking worth it before we had an effective vaccine.
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Getting the vaccine was pretty transcendent. Since then, I don’t mask in public unless I’m sick, because I see the vaccine as equivalent to wearing an N95 all the time anyway. I do always mask if I’m sick. I also think everyone should invest in a new high-quality reusable mask (maybe this one, as a heads-up friends debate how comfy it is. Find one that works for you!) to have around in case there’s another pandemic (which AI might make more likely).
..The most important thing is obviously keeping up with COVID booster shots. “
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Is it better that way?
Do you at least agree that I’m not a full-time job with a grant from a powerful foundation, the head of which is involved in the implementation of the mother-social network in society, which is a monitoring tool developed by the Pentagon,, and which the Open Philanthropy Foundation participates with grants for key participants in the plandemic, and now spreads “other risks of advanced AI”, and the person writer and grantee says, that “AI can cause new pandemics” ?
Nor do I use this person as a source. Would you use it?
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Here’s the video that Andy connected, saying “Find one [mask] that works for you!) to have around in case there’s another pandemic (which AI might make more likely).” The video is from 02.10.2025, 5 months before March 2026, when Andy started working full-time with a grant from Coefficient Giving (then Open Philanthropy), and who is speaking?
“2.10.2025
Conventional wisdom is that safeguarding humanity from the worst biological risks — microbes optimised to kill as many as possible — is difficult bordering on impossible, making bioweapons humanity’s single greatest vulnerability. Andrew Snyder-Beattie thinks conventional wisdom could be wrong.
Andrew’s job at Open Philanthropy is to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to protect as much of humanity as possible in the worst-case scenarios — those with fatality rates near 100% and the collapse of technological civilisation a live possibility.
As Andrew lays out, there are several ways this could happen, including:
• A national bioweapons programme gone wrong (most notably Russia or North Korea’s)
• AI advances making it easier for terrorists or a rogue AI to release highly engineered pathogens
• Mirror bacteria that can evade the immune systems of not only humans, but many animals and potentially plants as well
Most efforts to combat these extreme biorisks have focused on either prevention or new high-tech countermeasures. But prevention may well fail, and high-tech approaches can’t scale to protect billions when, with no sane people willing to leave their home, we’re just weeks from economic collapse.
So Andrew and his biosecurity research team at Open Philanthropy have been seeking an alternative approach. …”
And by the way, politicians are jumping on the anti-data center bandwagon because they want to win their next election. This is an issue that people care very much about.
You’d like to think that’s how it works because it validates your reactive panic as something grown up and intelligent. But it’s now how it works.
You don’t even know what a data center is. You never even heard of one until you started reading about them in the media you consume. This media told you scary things about them – so you got scared. And you flatter yourself this was your own intellectual process.
No, pal. You just got pwned by propaganda pushing your little buttons, and same for all those people you know who read the same media and are also panicking.
If you care about being a real independent thinker and not just a programmed bleating sheep – do the work, ask the real questions. Here’s a few
1) what IS a “data center”?
2) what do most data centers do –
i – they just do AI
ii – they do bad secret stuff while being powered by nukes and other real BAD stuff
iii – they do many different things, including in some cases providing vital services you and your hysterical sheep-friends rely on to survive on a daily basis
Check it out and get back – or just keep stupidly bleating. Up to you.
I know people whose profession it is to agitate about these things. They tell me there are communities with 50 data centers in them. How do you think their water table is going to fare. You know they just passed permission to re-open Three Mile Island. Why? To power data centers. Sounds like a good idea.
The irony that you’re spouting this bullshit underneath an article that already made it clear
a) people are panicking about “data centers” because they are being programmed to by media-messaging and
b) that data centers aren’t even using any but a tiny fraction of water consumed globally – 0.1%!!
Some of them don’t even use any fucking water at all – they’re air-cooled. And some of them use sealed recycled water cooling.
But still the sheep bleat in unified terror – BECAUSE THEY’VE BEEN TOLD TO BY THE SHEEP-HERDER. And no amount of hard fact or common sense is going to stop them.
And your Three Mile Island trope is just classic conflation propaganda for idiots. TMI is scary – so let’s associate it will something else we want people to be scared of – DATA CENTERS.
Ffs you lame brain, how much fucking electricity do you think these places use? They’re banks of processors not industrial lasers or steel plants!
Let me tell you – they use something like 1-3% of the energy consumed on this planet. .
Yeah, that’s all. So they prob don’t need to fire up a nuke power station just to keep them going. I think MAYBE that’s idiot fear porn for idiots, how about you?
But don’t mind me and don’t let facts or common sense get in your way – just keep bleating, and be sure to beg the government to do something to keep you safe!
Sorry stooge but Thomas is right, the media panic over water is just a cover story for the fact that the networks were already doomed by lack of modernization, replacement of mains and pumps, and no doubt the aging concrete reservoirs that are spread throughout every city too. You start looking around the average city or large town and you’ll see countless concrete tanks up on hills, some are even dug into the hilltops. And I won’t even go into the siltation of ALL the dams, which makes them functionally useless after an average of 100 years.
They built all this one dam and one city reservoir at a time as our human mouse plague grew and grew but there was never the expectation we would have to replace them in 80 years time with labor and materials orders of magnitude higher in cost. They were mostly all built with gushing out of the ground $5 a barrel oil as the energy source, and more recently with unplayable municipal debt to fund the purchase. It’s the same with our crumbling bridges, highways and city centers. At $100 a barrel it’s impossible to even put a dent in these problems. So they are covering them up so they don’t have to answer the REAL question. How do do we maintain the world we built with Oil, without the Oil?
RC Concrete is cheap. Cement, stone and steel rods.
Done the right way it can last for centuries, and only 100 years give a very small price of construction.
I see this howling for modernisation, renovation, rehabilitation, as some cartels hunger for business.
Sorry Erik but you are wrong.
Roman concrete lasted millenia.
The modern reinforced concrete lasts only 50-100 years (many sources online).
I look on the bright side – all those ugly skyscraper will be gone before the end of the century. Think of all the ruins Chinese and Russian tourists can visit!
💪 yes. In my area we have constantly contractors working to maintain shit. 😅 . Well, it keep people occupied and a job.
Definitely “Water” is weaponized as the next fear tool. Climate change was the last benign natural scare meme.
What will restrict data centres outside rainy regions with water more is their huge electricity consumption. If they contain strictly only national user date, ok; if they amass foreign data it becomes data colonialism/ imperialism. US and China are both guilty there.
Nooooo. You’re wrong. Data centers are good and they do good things for you and your family. Ask the troll.
So you’re really too stupid to grasp the idea that a data center is just a tool and a tool is only as bad as the use it’s being put to?
You can use a shovel to beat someone to death. Does that mean shovels are “bad”?
No, because you can also use a shovel to dig a garden or clear snow.
Data centers process information. Some of that information enables bad actors to do their bad stuff. Does that mean all data centers are bad?
No, because people also use data centers to provide essential services which you and your bleating sheep friends would be the first to panic about if they suddenly stopped.
You’re obviously a fucking tool supporting these technocratic control centers. Talk about fucking bleating sheep.
How much electricity do you believe data centers consume? Why would large banks of servers consume more electricity than a heavy industrial plant? Does your computer drain more electricity than your power tools? Try thinking rationally and not just reacting.
Don’t think limited to your own living room, research. Some of the upcoming US & China AI centres consume electricity in the Gigawatts. They are full of Nvidia and other GPUs for computing, not so much for storing.
Why are they demonizing data centers? The first paragraph of Republic of Scotland’s comment below supplies a possible explanation.
I would like to disprove the idea that water scarcity is even possible: Years ago I was introduced to Primary Water by Ellen Brown, author of Web of Debt, and other exposes of The Fed, etc..
Primary Water is the recognition of now-forgotten knowledge about water. Fresh water is created by the earth– water which has never been part of the rainfall cycle. I studied this at some length and could give you pages of documentation, but in the interest of brevity will try to control myself:
“Primary water” is newly produced by chemical processes within the earth & has never been part of the surface hydrological cycle. Created when conditions are right to allow oxygen to combine with hydrogen, this water is continually being pushed up under great pressure from deep within the earth and finds its way toward the surface where there are fissures or faults. Japanese researchers reported in Science in March 2002 that the earth’s lower mantle may store about five times more water than its surface oceans.
Pal Pauer of the Primary Water Institute, one of the world’s leading experts in tapping primary water, says a well sufficient to service an entire community could be dug and generating great volumes of water in a mere two or three days, at a cost of about $100,000. The entire state of California could be serviced for about $800 million.
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“The Fertile Crescent, which stretches from Israel to the Persian Gulf and includes the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Iraq, is supplied at its easternmost point by a cave in an iron-red limestone cliff. This flow becomes the Jordan River. At its westernmost point are springs. One flows from the foot of a buttress on Mt. Hermon and another pours from the cliffs in waterfalls. A spring in Oregon flows at 690 million gallons a day, a spring in Missouri flows at 800 million gallons a day, and a series of springs along the Snake River in Idaho flow at 3.5 billion gallons a day.”
“In France, Professor C. Louis Kervran wrote an essay in 1977 on the origin of water in crystalline rock. He knew that most of the wells in his native Brittany were found by dowsers and dug into solid granite. In his career he knew of so many cases where tunneling into rock created floods that wiped out the construction sites that he didn’t bother to collect data on them. During a drought in 1976 the French Geological and Mining Bureau loaned drilling equipment to find water in the region. Successful wells were drilled into crystalline and metamorphic terrain.”
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http://www.primarywaterinstitute.org/evidence.html
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Non-saline hot water released from (underwater) Gakkel Ridge in Arctic
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http://www.globalresearch.ca/california-water-wars-another-form-of-asset-stripping/5438835 Ellen Brown. Includes several innovative sources for inexpensive water. Suggestion that these are being avoided in order to enhance the value of limited water which is being bought up. It’s the people against the new “water barons” – Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Monsanto, the Bush family, and their ilk – who are buying up water all over the world at an unprecedented pace.
“Primary water”… Created when conditions are right to allow oxygen to combine with hydrogen.
Sounds like fringe science to me, but one driver of subterranean water is the shifting of the continental shelf’s. They draw down vast volumes of seawater as one plate subducts under another, the salt is driven off as it boils in the deep interior and then it rises as the crust rises again. Of course this all happens over geologic ages and is of no use to me. I use the rainwater from the sky.
There is plenty of water for everyone in every city if we just stopped watering our lawns, filling our pools, washing our cloths so often and showering every day. Obviously no one wants to go around stinking like a pig but there it is. 5000L of rainwater is enough drinking water for about 5 years. I know because I have calculated it from my own consumption. I fill a 25L container from the tank and bring it inside every 10 days on average. That’s drinking only, making coffee and tea and simply drinking water. 200 fills times 10 days, 2000 days of drinking.
Weird that I see a lot of downvoting of the most cogent replies…
My guess is that collapse is out of fashion and all the slaves out there want to believe the pedo genocidal US empire will last forever so they can enjoy their cars and their lawns.
To your point – we truly live in the age of exces.
If an average american would have to carry their own water, heat the home with wood they cut and walk to work, I doubt that 1% would survive.
So rain and the water cycle is completely ignored in favour of something deep down there which nobody has a chance to see, control nor check out. Just believe in Science.
https://yandex.ru/video/preview/13141492167830017346
So rain doesnt matter? God doesnt matter? Science do it all better? 😏 .
Nature, Erik. Just like natural gas and petroleum. Not a theory. A demonstrated reality.
I appreciate many of your comments penelope, but this one…… 😏 .
I think I got your angle. Finance fiat money buy up rights of natural drinking water to make money.
You and Co invent and go to an alternative source to circumvent this financial blackmail.
That is why the whole thing looks weird. This alternative is a desperate attempt to avoid the financial fraudsters on the real stuff.
I thought that it was inorganic oil that was created thousands of feet below the earth’s surface. Now it’s water. What next? Rock Candy?
All three maybe and more.
AI water usage already exceeds the water usage of the biggest beverage companies in the world.
Groundwater is withdrawn by industries such as manufacturing, mining, oil and gas, energy and utilities, and construction. Apparel and food & beverage industries are highly dependent on groundwater through supply chains. According to Aquastat, 19% of global freshwater withdrawals come from industry and energy.
Having said that, the single biggest global consumer is agriculture, using 70 per cent of all freshwater reserves. This is used to: grow crops (including animal feed crops), general on-farm use, such as cleaning, sanitation, crop spraying; and to rear farmed animals which feed the world’s meat, dairy and egg demand.
Furthermore, there are moves already to develop and install closed loop cooling systems for data centres and other industries, some of which already have these installed.
I hate data centres as much as the next reader on OG for obvious reasons, including environmental (noise, EMF, …) pollution and for the agenda these are built for. However, when looking just at the fresh water or ground water issue we need to address how our societies do farming. Abandon monoculture farming and reduce the insane level of animal farming. Yea, I know, popular.
Groundwater doesn’t disappear on being used. It’s pumped back into the surface water through rivers and reservoirs and is still available for human use. Groundwater is just another replenishable resource they want you to believe is scarce so they can regulate and commodify it.
After it’s gone through the electro-magnetic and heavy machinery systems it will no longer be pristine ground water.
Sure, but once it’s been out to sea, evaporated and falls again as rain it’s good to go and perfectly fine.
I’ve never clicked one of those silly thumbs in my life, and I’m not starting now. Distrust all thumb-clickers who can’t type!
I’m surprised the tech firms haven’t pointed this out
Optimist: The glass is half full.
Pessimist: The glass is half empty.
Rationalist: The glass is too big.
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Realist: It depends on what is in the glass
I don’t know about England, but in the US, all sorts of people, conservative and liberal, young and old, are getting all het up about AI and data centers. They attend township meetings in droves whereas just months ago, crickets. They just defeated allowing one down the road here. The fact that barca-lounger people and young texters are out getting angry about something they well should get angry about is a good thing. So what if they come out over water issues that aren’t very real (by the way, national and worldwide statistics do not equate to local, as usual–if a data center eviscerates your local watershed, I wonder how you’ll react when they tell you, “Oh, it’s only .01 percent.”) Data centers are there to incipit Skynet. Whether they use water is beside the point. Btw, they plan to ramp up fracking to power the bastards. Fracking already poisons half the state I live in. And don’t give me no statistics. Tell them to the families all with cancer who had to abandon their homes they were so poisoned.
Don’t conflate surveillnce/Skynet. Corrupt officials are allowing industries (IT is another industry) that threaten water/electricity supply, health or even the continued existence of towns. Free market, my foot.
“Statistic torturing” is the illegal tender of the media, rising irresistibly to the level of statistic genocide – The Retardian
They could use the huge volumes as a reason to seize water supplies – they can use the huge energy requirements to up the price of energy – we’ll have no idea what chemicals will be deliberately leaked from those centres – which could be used as an excuse to evacuate humans from certain areas – and place them in the coming 15 minute cities, thus clearing huge areas of land from any human inhabitants.
The scare stories from the corporate controlled media – might be released to instil those very things into our minds – prior to the PTB’s minions carrying out such acts against us – in all honesty we have no real idea what will be going inside these centres, they have been presented to us a data centres – but I find that simple term for them as a misnomer, for me they are a rung on the PTB’s ladder – a ladder of that ends with full control over us and a reduction in humanity – the now destroyed Georgia Guide Stones – indicates that humanity must be reduced to a manageable 500 million humans.
Precisely. The future and the times we are now walking into will be a time without dumb arses and ugly buglys. Only intelligent and smart people will be left.
We must scrutinise if we can – everything governments are up to – we MUST be cynical and suspicious of their motives on everything – as Chomsky said:
“No matter what you think your government is up to- they are usual up to far worse.”
Thus, I think you are saying, data centers are going to use huge volumes of water–and electricity–and this will enable them to up the price for both. Sounds logical.
It is normal to see ‘Them’ as an evil power, organisation with powers that persistently out manoeuvre checks or balances in ratcheting a systems capture of control by coercions and deceits. they are seen as unified, effective and active by stealth and guile.
My sense is that lawlessness aligns against being exposed or held to lawful account so as to fear and control under a mask of protection or socially masking defences.
I think this aligns the mind to seek and align in masking evasions as socially reinforced narratives.
However, in the mould of ‘one ring to rule them all and in the darkness bind them’, who exactly gets to wield it” and is power sharing a strength of a fear-driven hierarchy – when the common enemy has been effectively neutered.
I expect to see ‘turf wars’ that may or may not split the ‘controller class’ – depending on whether they can be brought to heel or desist via the imposing of a choke on dependencies.
Finance and Tech come to mind as the means to choke any rival.
the Climatistas are seeking tokenising Nature (well almost anything) as approved collateral for financial leverage and control (incentivisation = comply or die). Scams run as governance
But the A.I techies seek control of the knowledge base as real time surveillance and control over bio-assets
However the AI —as with the biotech bubble is a global investment against catastrophic loss (honest accounting).
A ‘Judaically’ collectivised West runs a monopolism, while an Eastern consciousness seeks a utilitarianism – which is no less a tyranny but more disposed to social ‘harmonising’ rather than abject enslavement under shifting lawless terrors.
At some level I see vengeance runs a different agenda to structuring social controls.
But my own choice is in what I choose to value and where I choose to give attention.
I never was in charge of The World, or anyone else really – and even I cant force myself against my will.
But I see the drive to make ‘narratives’ that then operate as identities in polarised factions.
Does division demand to be ruled?
The multiplication of division is the circular argument spiraling down slippery slopes imagined by strawmen surfing contextual fabrications designed as logical rules through the illusion generated in an innocent posture demanded by plausible ignorance.
But how many data centers are they building or saying they are going to build and over what time period. When sailing ships used to take months to cross the oceans they used to know that to much of any one thing often meant a shortage of something else.
But how quickly to they claim they want to build them as this would divert resources from other requirements, As for why they want to build them as just one data center would have enough computing power to do every thing useful. So the rest would be just doing non useful stuff. Is this like the tulip boom and just all the automated trading that will invest in anything that says AI rather like if you want funding add climate change to your proposal.
Could the bad publicity for infighting from the climate change lobby as Data centers need real energy and can not be run on windmills and are stealing the climate change investment. So it could be one lot over rich mad investors that are ultimately going to get you to pay for there money making schemes competing with other investing lobby group.
Lets hope they cancel themselves out and end up suing each other out of existing. But it is likely to cost the tax payer plenty.
China is apparently building some of its “Data Centres” underwater.
“China is building data centers on the ocean floor. Instead of relying heavily on giant air-conditioning systems or freshwater cooling, these underwater facilities use the ocean as a natural cooling source.
Sealed pressure-resistant modules on the seabed dissipate heat into the surrounding seawater, which acts as a natural cooling source.
Early projects off Shanghai and Hainan show significant efficiency gains: the Shanghai project’s designers estimated about 22.8% lower overall energy consumption, while the Hainan facility has been reported to be 40–60% more power-efficient than traditional facilities, with little or no freshwater needed for cooling. “
Thanks! I just saw that meme yesterday, I was wondering whether Kit would be addressing that in his next installment. Curiouser and curiouser …
That could prove to be an insurmountable task as the data-centres mentioned have no addresses by virtue of them being deep underwater.
I see it the other way. AI is being demonised, and governments will have to step in to prevent data centres stealing all our water and electricity. Then the data centres will be repurposed for CBDC and social credit systems, and the media will be suddenly silent about their resource usage.
One thing’s for certain though: the data centres will be prioritised at times when there isn’t enough water or power for everyone.
In my European 1000 m2 lot it rains 700 m3/year. In my lot only, and same everywhere in the country per 1000 m3.
A household with 2 kids uses 100 m3/year. 600 m3/year to everything else and surplus run to the groundwater, ditches, rivers, lakes, and from there to the salty sea to be cleaned and evaporated again.
Wuaww wuaww auhhh auhhh , but the pipes are destroyed, asbest, lead, leaks and cancer reports. Many many problems. We are having so many personal problems.
Water is the ultimate commodity upon which all life on Earth depends, perhaps second only to Sun.
Therefore, it is the ultimate control mechanism. He controls the water controls every living thing, better than the food supply which depends on water anyway and much better than energy.
The big question is why link its availability and blame potential shortages on data centres rather than other users of water that consume far more? Well, since the controllers create narratives to fulfil more than one agenda, getting the public to demonise data centres could be of use to them. Most data centres are not part of the Big Brother surveillance grid, for better or worse since the advent of the computer age, they provide the services which we rely upon in daily life.
Banking, logistics, manufacturing, transport and every form of industry, utilities, services and retail depend upon them. Without them we return to the Stone Age fast. Now, if the important ones were to fail due to manufactured crises blamed on water shortages, then for example in the case of logistics, there will be no food in the supermarkets or shops within days. In the developed world everything is done on a ‘just in time’ basis, that means a logistics breakdown would lead to empty shelves within 3 days, since supermarkets only hold 72 hours worth of stock during normal times with normal demand.
Extend these data centre shutdowns to utilities providers such as water, electricity, natural gas and petrol and imagine the chaos. Health services and emergency services would collapse too.
A strategic manufactured failure of the data centres that provide the backbone to so-called civilized society would cause utter chaos, civil unrest and deaths through starvation and disease. Even if the failure did not extend to critical infrastructure that supports human life, a manufactured failure of the banking systems could wipe out the records of people’s savings and investments overnight. I am sure in that event the loans records including mortgages would remain intact – so conveniently no debt relief.
“You will own nothing and be happy….”
The growing dependence on ICT is insanity. It can fail due to natural phenomena, economic imperialism, suppliers collapse, supplier/employee error, mismanagement, crime, etc. All governments are aware of most of these threats, but seem to have a zombie-like determination to impose digital cash and digital ID, even in wretchedly poor nations.
A flu killing off the rich?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XyQl3xMIJl0
We should be so lucky.
Looking forward to this series – OG is always out front of these narratives. Faking water scarcity is potentially terrifying in its potential for levels of control it could be used to introduce. Genuine hardship too.
My suspicion is that we’re being softened up for Data Centers becoming State, or more likely Public Private Partnership quote unquote, enterprises. A number of Data Centers at varying stages of planning/development won’t ever be built. But enough of them will, and since Oracle, AWS and the rest have positioned themselves as Too Vital To Fail, it will be ‘necessary’ for the State/PPPs to save the jobs at risk etc etc and promise to run them in sUsTaiNaBLe ways. Behold: a study reveals that your Official Data Center, unlike those stinky behemoths in AOC’s hood, barely even uses any water at all!!!
The UK gov can find umpteen millions to subsidise Larry Ellison’s Universal World in Bedfordshire after all. The exact same Larry Ellison who runs a central panopticon apparatus. The same Larry Ellison who sends instructions to Trump, Satanyahu, Puppet Starmer, and the rest.
It’s nothing to do with water that’s for f sure.
Because official Data Center’s books dont show any use of water at all, is no excuse for ignoring all the other reports about lack of drinking water resources to the sheeple.
Water is dry, 2+2=7, and Pythagoras is a Greek restaurant where your local political copy/pasting of Trotsky is eating pizza every wednesday.
The randomness of your ‘comments’ has a certain shabby glamor
In general, when something is so noisy, “in swarm”, attacked by liberals (msm establishment), it leads to the activation of the counter-reactionary swarm and the affirmation of the opposite opinion in the right camp.
So, if you want to establish a belief on the right – attack it on the left.
Perhaps that is way now the noisy and media anti-technological activism has been delegated to the liberals and is qualified as “anti-technological terrorism”. And they were specifically targeted at data centers, I think?
If I haven’t missed the article, here and elsewhere in the critical alt sphere, it still hasn’t been denied the fundamental role of data centers for the efficient functionating of technocracy (which you are writing against*)?
(*I say “against you write”, because I am not against technocracy, which is the malicious use of digital technologies for dictatirship; I am against the sinking into the digital ceespool pit in general, no matter what good it is used for, and your stuggle ensures that the sinking into the pit continues, but a victory would cement it as part of the life of the brain.)
..So after the announcement of the plan for intensive construction of data centers, there was a lot of noise, including in right-wing circles, which caused indignation and some split, after it became clear to some of them that the saviors were preparing a dark maga technocracy.
Including here, there are constantly articles after articles exposing the Trump team as an arm of the Cabal, introducing fechnocracy. “The glass filled with a lot of water, but overflows because of only a few drops”, says the ancient Greek thinker Tehnokratis in “Circle and fate”.
And exactly one if the consecutive articles here overflow the cup of the Cabal’s patience. Their technocracy was threatened. At a secret meeting on Lolita Island, the committee of the 300, the heads of the 13 families, and the Prince of this world, Rotschild, made the following decision:
“If as one people exposing our plans they have begun spreads hesitation for data centers, then nothing of their plan to rejecting technocracy will be imposible for them.
In order for the critical conservative to accept the data centers we will spread as a fact in the mainstream, through the UN, and our academics, the erroneous and easy-to-dismiss notion that the centers consume a lot of water.
And they, author after author, and site after site, will rush to refute and expose it (as we did with “vaccines save lives”, “global warming”, “the biological sex and race are social constructions”, and everything else,as result of which our Trump card being introduced to introduce technocracy.)
“Here it is, as always: if the mainstream of the liberal establishment says it, then it is the other way around – it always works like this, and we always reveal them quickly. But way do they say it? Narrative of deindustrialization, in order to set the economy back, create a crisis and ruin society”, they will say themselves and will estimate the importance of the centers (without which our technocracy cannot live).
And even before we have drunk or glasses with wine, they will shared and spread the thousand articles million times and write ten million comments in support.
And here is the big gain – whoever has ears, let him listen:
By doing this, they will water our digital flower, and it will smell even more enchanting to them.
Because the data exchange is the water of the Internet;
And he who does not drink will die, but he who drink will live, grow and have a long live.”
Minor point: did they have glasses in ancient Greece?
I have noticed the same strange media focus on data centres recently, in fact I have commented on it here. Why are they doing this? The tie-in with the “water bankruptcy” narrative seems clear – but still, why focus on data centres when they are essential to the control machine? They could focus on farming or industry which use much more water.
Is it perhaps because they realise data centres are already unpopular and it might be easier to get public opinion behind a “water bankruptcy” fear campaign based on their antipathy to dara centres and AI?
The fact most data centres have nothing to do with AI is of course also left out of the narrative.
Data centers have nothing to do with AI? I thought they were providing the data for AI.
Come on guys – just when I think I understand it all.
I said MOST data centers have nothing to do with AI. Some do.
Data centres are really just big offices dedicated to processing information. They’re communication and processing hubs and most of what they process is just the day to day traffic that keeps society running in this modern age.
All delivery services rely on data centres, Electricity grids and water supplies, emergency services – police, fire, ambulances – hospital appointments, travel networks, essential medicine supplies, holiday bookings, traffic information, mail orders – you name it and a data centre is involved in keeping it running.
Without data centres modern life would grind to a halt and there would be empty shelves in the shops, essential medicines undelivered – chaos actually and genuine threats to life.
When people talk about data centres negatively what they are really talking about are quite specific ones that process surveillance, and the minority involved in generating some AI.
These can be said to be either hostile or a waste of space. But even so – their environmental impact remains pretty low compared to most human activity so attacking these specific data centres on that ground makes little sense. rather they should be challenged for the work they do and its potential impact on privacy.
The question is, as Kit says – why is the establishment using distorted propaganda to discredit the reputation of an essential establishment tool?
It is potentially quite sinister.
I wrote a comment similar to yours about this theme and why the controllers maybe demonising data centres. Anyway, it went to pending
Yes, I read it just now – we are thinking alike on this issue
Conclusion: Civilisation will completely collapse without Data Centers.
Some big salesman is really hidden inside you. Is Larry paying you too?
Fucking idiot
Move aside scary viruses. Flesh-eating screwworms are a-coming for humans, as soon as the little critters mootate and learn to jump species… And there arent no injections developed to protect us. But first they’re a-gonna decimate the cattle herds that are bringing the world to an end with their farts.
Expects to hear of entire herds put down soon – to protect us ?
Though there are no jabs, they can scan your body, cut out each worm or cyst (or pretend to), and present you with a fat bill.
In the UK treated sewage water is pumped back in the reservoirs and rivers to be reused as drinking water. It’s actually not hard to filter out the tampons and toilet paper and kill the biological disease carriers. The problems is people flush a lot of other weird stuff down the dunny, Old pharmaceuticals, household poisons and forever chemicals etc that the treatment system can’t filter or neutralize. And I’m not referring specifically to the toilet, all the grey water from washing machines and kitchen sinks and laundry tubs goes down there too. Who hasn’t poured some old garden chemical down the laundry sink?
I stopped drinking tap water 15 odd years ago to avoid the fluoride. I wouldn’t touch it with a barge pole now! Get yourself a rainwater tank.
Its too expensive and time consuming to go to the chemical destruction center.
Therefore quicksilver, liquid lead, roundup, asbest dust, plastic nanos, swine fats, and similar are going down the sewage throat.
I have to be honest here and say this article has gotten me rather befuddled and confused. As I typed that I just saw a middle aged man with a man bun walking his dog down an empty street… fully masked. Maybe he thinks his dog will give him Ebola or Monkey Pox or something. It’s bonkers here. But I digress… why would the media presstitutes be planting doubts about data centres that are springing up everywhere like mushrooms after rain. The very same data centres that will be the foundation of the digital panopticonic gulag and surveillance state, where data is being touted by the WEF minions as “the new oil bonanza”. And yes Kit, I’ve seen those videos of people in Georgia who supposedly live next to data centres in that state, and they paint a disturbing and miserable picture since the data centres were built. I’ve seen articles from alternative media sites warning how bad data centres will be, and how they will use vast amounts of water, not to mention the noise they emit. There’s a huge data centre being built in the next suburb of West Footscray to where I live, and a massive data centre at Plumpton on the northern outskirts of Melbourne that will be the largest in Australia and cover a whopping 350 hectares. So why are they planting doubts about all this?
That’s what Kit says in the article – it’s weird. They’re planning something obviously
Damn good question. It seems counter-intuitive. And yet they are doing it. AOC is an establishment puppet currently bashing data centres with phony factoids! Very bizarre.
Like you said… its weird, and yep, very aware that AOC is an establishment puppet, and I forgot to mention that the Greens and a socialist group here have started kicking up a fuss and raising concerns about the data centres being built in Melbourne as well.
Maybe they do intend to start using those mini nucleur reactors to operate the data centers. And the excuse will be “Well, the alternative is running out of water.”
I really do feel for the people who live near these huge centers. You can surveille me all you want, but do it quietly. That noise would put my last nerves on edge.
Important:
Be careful who you trust.
Wicked people in all places
https://francisoneill.substack.com/p/the-curious-case-of-ed-the-techie
OT:
23:30 sure is a long minute.
Its a psyop, and they are mocking you to your face telling you.
Off topic😖
Another nail in the ‘Covid’ coffin?
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-shocking-damage-caused-by-covid-policies/
Here’s hoping.
And again.
A voice from the grave:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/christine-cotton-final-message/5928773
From a brave soul on the inside of Big pHarmer.
I just read that yesterday. I’d never heard of her but wow, she did extensive study on the cvid and vaccine corruption.
Was her pain caused from the vaccine? That was never established.
Not sure Judith.
So what’s her point? I am gathering something like there was no quality control on the “vaccines” and they just shipped out any old crap. But I can’t tell from your link and I can’t read the article from the medical journal. Summary please.
You can find her story on Global Research. It’s right there at the top of the page, with her photo.
But it doesn’t say exactly what it is she found out.
I agree with you. This is also my claim. Someone read through these 446 pages make a summary pls…….before we appoint her to hero……only because she died.
Where’s my comment here, made this am PST? You guys are back to censorship?Can’t allow critique? Is this not totalitarianism.
What happened to my comment here?
your comment has perhaps run away with Kit’s article? No, all are here I think.
Remote districts attract data centres. The bribes are lower, and the residents can get little publicity or afford to prosecute.
If electricity generation consumes too much water as the article suggests, the choices are (a) buy sustainable technology (b) for direct use of water, buy solar-powered machines that condense water from the air.
What most of us get free with piped water: chlorine, fluoride, alum (aluminium sulphide).