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Attilatheblond

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2. Their county officials sound as innane and stupid as ours here in the AZ borderlands

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Tue Jun 30, 2026, 04:28 PM

13 hrs ago

We have state legislature reps trying to convince us we are not running out of water in AZ and our power rates won't go up due to wonderful data centers.

Colorado River is not robust this year and our fossil water table is so low that hundreds of homeowners on private wells are out of luck reaching water in our county already, BEFORE data centers are built and suck more water.

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County With 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to 'Conserve Electricity' [View all] highplainsdem 14 hrs ago OP

Consequences. Assume the local community thought data centers were a good idea... erronis 13 hrs ago #1

Their county officials sound as innane and stupid as ours here in the AZ borderlands Attilatheblond 13 hrs ago #2

I do not understand why delisen 13 hrs ago #3

This unregulated shit needs to be banned yesterday. This is beyond insane. Karasu 13 hrs ago #4

"Also, we need everyone to stop bathing and drinking so much water." tanyev 13 hrs ago #5

Dude- mwmisses4289 13 hrs ago #6

Shut down the effing data centers!' C Moon 12 hrs ago #7

Glen Younkin was our last governor... renordgren 12 hrs ago #8

Everyone must serve the needs of the tech billionaires dalton99a 12 hrs ago #9

These data centers will eventually destroy the communities and make them uninhabitable and sustainable in the next 5 kimbutgar 11 hrs ago #10

Same thing we say about SpaceX RussBLib 10 hrs ago #12

Data centers are trying to move into our rural area and their biggest investors are our local power company ToxMarz 11 hrs ago #11

I am 78 years old, I retired after 40 years in a steel mill. Our plant consumed over $1 million doc03 10 hrs ago #13

Great job, Richmond! Youngkin installed these parasites and now we have to live with them. Martin68 9 hrs ago #14

So fitting that Richmond was the former capitol of the Confederacy. SunSeeker 5 hrs ago #17

This message was self-deleted by its author SunSeeker 5 hrs ago #18

404 media is paywalled out the wazoo. Has anyone actually read this? usonian 7 hrs ago #15

This was always going to happen. Aussie105 7 hrs ago #16

The problem is the price structure Old Crank 1 hr ago #19