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Attilatheblond

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22. Here in the AZ borderlands, where people face drilling deeper well to reach lowering, disappearing water table

Thu Dec 4, 2025, 10:06 AM

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GOP state legislators are ALL about 'creating jobs' by approving rural data centers to suck up what little water was left after they let rich Saudi horse fanciers use water to make the desert provide alfalfa hay to go to Arabia.

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Bet ya Trump will make this illegal: it makes too much sense [View all] applegrove 16 hrs ago OP

Interesting but I doubt it will happen here only because it sounds expensive newdeal2 16 hrs ago #1

If it adds a nickel of cost to the opium dreams of AI developers, it will never happen. hatrack 16 hrs ago #2

Excellent true words! chouchou 15 hrs ago #19

And if it additionally drmeow 4 hrs ago #40

NIMBY modrepub 16 hrs ago #8

Unless they charge users for the heat and/or energy Auggie 15 hrs ago #13

Here in the AZ borderlands, where people face drilling deeper well to reach lowering, disappearing water table Attilatheblond 15 hrs ago #22

Finland has a centralized network of underground pipes to distribute steam (geothermal).... pat_k 3 hrs ago #41

Finland's underlying granite is home to lots of infrastructure. thought crime 1 hr ago #46

Yeah, it makes way too much sense. sop 16 hrs ago #3

Never work in the USA - it it's not making a profit it is dead on arrival. walkingman 16 hrs ago #4

Yeah. This would save on heating costs. Trump only applegrove 16 hrs ago #6

BINGO! OldBaldy1701E 16 hrs ago #9

What about all the data centers in the South? Ursus Rex 16 hrs ago #5

An argument for moving data centers to Alaska or more densely populated cold places in the "snowbelt." pat_k 3 hrs ago #42

This is a nice thing OnionPatch 16 hrs ago #7

Please explain how that helps the fossil fuel industry. JohnnyRingo 16 hrs ago #10

Are you talking to me? It doesn't help the fossil fuel industry. applegrove 16 hrs ago #11

I was being sarcastic. JohnnyRingo 15 hrs ago #12

Sorry. I get it now. I didn't think you were a troll applegrove 15 hrs ago #14

I was being sarcastic again. JohnnyRingo 15 hrs ago #17

LOL! applegrove 15 hrs ago #18

Well, I for one knew where you were coming from in the first few words. Cheers! erronis 15 hrs ago #16

It takes huge amounts of Electricity popsdenver 7 hrs ago #37

Of course it helps the fossil fuel industry... NewLarry 14 hrs ago #26

Rec jfz9580m 2 hrs ago #45

And when they finally figure out the data centers are worthless and shut them down? erronis 15 hrs ago #15

Putting them underground also helps with noise and space constraints IronLionZion 15 hrs ago #20

Thank You Or Posting This! Rendville 15 hrs ago #21

Trump would have his peons bomb the place. twodogsbarking 14 hrs ago #23

Finland and Iceland are already positioned to take advantage of this kind of technology... Ol Janx Spirit 14 hrs ago #24

Yeah, he'll call them underground wind mills or some such shit. RedWhiteBlueIsRacist 14 hrs ago #25

I don't know. Sounds kind of "woke" to me. If it's not coal, Trump isn't interested. Vinca 14 hrs ago #27

Acushnet Process Company, which started making Titleist golf balls, used to heat the building in the winter from...... usaf-vet 14 hrs ago #28

Yes computers were huge back in the day. applegrove 13 hrs ago #29

WWBOD? - What Would Big Oil Do? JoseBalow 12 hrs ago #30

Inefficient use of a wasteful process's leftovers. marble falls 11 hrs ago #31

Inefficient use is better than no use at all. Shipwack 9 hrs ago #34

Trump doesn't have to make this illegal. In most of the country we can't do this at all. jmowreader 11 hrs ago #32

Reminds me of the Minnesota Supercomputer Center GopherGal 10 hrs ago #33

Fa geta bout it! This is only possible when you have government oversight and an educated populace. flashman13 9 hrs ago #35

Silly me popsdenver 7 hrs ago #36

Considering that the U.S. is 29 times the size of Finland, I'm pretty sure this is a problem of scale, and not ancianita 5 hrs ago #38

If would probably. work in large cities if there were still large tenements. LiberalArkie 5 hrs ago #39

District heat networks? In America you pay to have your data-center heat delivered in a truck. paulkienitz 3 hrs ago #43

Given the places it would make sense, seems to me it's a great "blue state" (subset: snowbelt) initiative. pat_k 2 hrs ago #44