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Eros789 2 points ago +2 / -0

Boy this article tries hard doesn't it?

But a new report from Amazon

Because that is an unbiased source.

Amazon claims its data centers withdrew “about 2.5 billion gallons” globally in 2025.

Amazon doesn't even own any massive AI data centers. It's primarily made up using about nine hundred tiny cloud networks.

That number sounds incredibly large at first glance, but it looks downright puny compared to the 117 trillion gallons of water withdrawn in the US alone in 2015.

If you're wondering why it is comparing to a study in 2015. It's because 2015 had a massive drought. Something like 95% loss of normal snowfall and -66% of total normal precipitation. It cost billions in economic disaster and water issues. Everyone used more water that year than any year since.

from the 3.3 trillion gallons used annually on US lawns and landscaping

Their citation is an EPA link that claims 1/3 of all water used by American households is dumped outside, and half of that is purely for watering lawns. And the solution to this obvious lie is to buy their officially licensed WaterSense®™ products.

531 billion gallons a year used just for US golf courses.

Golf courses use unclean water, it is untreated and unsafe to drink. Essentially, they suck up water from a nearby ditch (itself filled with the water the ground had previously absorbed).

AI centers use clean water to avoid damaging their systems. Directly drawing off the drinkable water supply.

Google data centers withdrew about more than 6.1 billion gallons of water in 2024, on top of about 2.75 billion gallons from Microsoft and about 1.4 billion gallons from Meta in the same year. All told, a 2021 Nature study estimates that all US data centers combined consumed about 163 billion gallons of water that year.

The AI bubble started in 2022, so let's use individual numbers from 2024, and a total from 2021...

Three quarters of the way into the article and dozens of reassurances later we finally get to this.

That number has doubtlessly increased in the AI-driven years since that study was published—one analysis estimates that Texas data centers alone used 25 to 49 billion gallons in 2024, and could grow to withdraw 399 billion gallons in 2030. But even annual data center water usage measured in the trillions would represent a figurative (and kind of literal) drop in the bucket compared to national and worldwide water usage statistics.

One data center used up to 49,000,000,000 gallons of water in 2024. It is expected to grow to 399,000,000,000 gallons within four more years.

There are currently 335 data centers with 200 more in various stages of being built or planned.

A single Meta data center in Newton County, Georgia, for instance, now uses about 10 percent of the entire county’s water supply, according to a New York Times report from last year.

And this one center in Georgia consumes one tenth of the entire industry, commercial, and residential water usage of a county with over 127,000 people.

a 2025 Business Insider report found that 40 percent of planned and existing data centers in the US are in areas with “high” or “extremely high” water scarcity, as measured by the World Resources Institute.

But why? Just why...

Then it returns to claiming Google plans to help water production. Like this isn't crazy, it's fine. Trust your AI overlords that are smart enough to build massive drinkable water sinks in the middle of deserts, they know what is best. 😕

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Eros789 10 points ago +10 / -0

Republicans Next Year: What's this stack of ballots?

California: It's from Republican voters, we count them last.

The correct answer is to not count mail in ballots after such time.

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Eros789 5 points ago +5 / -0

"The CIA was blind!"

Lmao, no they were in charge of the project.

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Eros789 1 point ago +1 / -0

Sounds like Mike is having problems getting it up these days. It's not stress, Mike is just getting old.

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Eros789 1 point ago +1 / -0

They call it "alternative medicine" because random fucking not-medicine weed found in my backyard doesn't roll off the tongue.

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Eros789 3 points ago +3 / -0

What did you expect?

Progressives have been rewriting history for almost two decades. Do you really think they believe the bible of all things is too sacred to edit? 🫃

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Eros789 5 points ago +5 / -0

We all knew this was coming.

Not saying it started with the Boy Scouts, but the BSA is certainly a very public example. It combined Christianity, patriotism, education, masculinity, and taught leadership. So naturally, it had to be destroyed.

It started with the gays, they infiltrated the BSA and raped children. Then the whiney mothers came and bitched about their military access. Then their failures of a daughter came begging to be called Eagle Scouts because they believed they could complete the education-only aspects. But they were to fucking lazy to invent their own program, or use the co-ed BSA programs, or use the already existing female led alternatives. They had to change BSA, to ruin it.

And the organization that tried to teach leadership and standing for morality collapsed under the blame it should have never shouldered.

  • The pedophiles were the problem.
  • The leaders that allowed the pedophiles to be alone with children were a problem.
  • The lack of oversight from the unit's board members that were responsible for the unit's leaders was a problem.
  • The lack of oversight from charter organization that was responsible for the unit was a problem.
    It was not the problem of the people thousands of miles away telling you to be a good person.

But they compensated, they gave ground, and went girl/gay. And now they are destroyed. Barely any attendance, no public activity, camp closings everywhere, now progressives treat them like Hitler's Youth as they themselves dress in all black and hurt others while preaching Socialism.

And this taught the Progressives one thing: No one will stand up to them. So why would they stop?

And now, try Googling sexual assault in schools sometime. Strip teases and cocksucking books as just the tips of the iceberg to a very prolonged attempt to destroy all attempts at education and promote pedophilia.

And now, forty years later someone finally says we need backbones? Too fucking late. You need to hit back, not stand still.

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Eros789 2 points ago +2 / -0

Illegals see this and think: "Why should I care about renewing my visa or filing asylum?"

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Eros789 1 point ago +1 / -0

Who will grieve? Progressives of course , yeahee TDS.

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Eros789 7 points ago +7 / -0

I don't know what to tell you.

I work in healthcare and I can confirm 90% of nurses are fucking terrible people. They don't get into it to "help" anyone, but it's a high paying job that requires little to no effort with zero accountability.

I used to watch them snipe at each other on in medsurg all the time. And night shift spends most of their time on their phones consuming Left-wing media, branding themselves as a collective "nurse" and conforming to it. Then with all that freetime they have to advertise their agreement for social credit.

There are a few good ones, but most would rather kill you than admit the evil asshole you seen during COVID is their natural uncensored self.

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Eros789 1 point ago +1 / -0

Patient: I have had abdominal pain for 20 years, I know everything about it. Takes a sip

Doctor: And for the last twenty years we have been telling you your pancreatitis is from your alcoholism.

Patient: I'm the expert, not you!

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Eros789 1 point ago +1 / -0

If you are trapped at LAX, just contact ICE. They can get you sent home.

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Eros789 5 points ago +5 / -0

It depends on what part of New York.

Upstate is armed, and when winter hits frozen zombies are target practice.

California is just plain screwed. Drive north hoping for the same thing and you'll just find some Democrat already set the state on fire. Welcome to hell, lots of undead & fire everywhere.

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Eros789 1 point ago +1 / -0

Sing it with me, noooo more dictator judges. Oooh nooo more, paper sludges. No more, hahahah.

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Eros789 3 points ago +3 / -0

Food spoils because fungi & bacteria grow and devour it.

McDonald's food is so thoroughly cooked everything is serialized. If you want it to degrade faster, like that unsealed bag of bread you keep putting your nasty hand into, try smearing it across your countertop at home.

Fair bit of warning, you'll probably never want to eat again.

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Eros789 1 point ago +1 / -0

Shoot them back, make an example of these terrorists. God leftists are terrible.

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Eros789 1 point ago +1 / -0

Did they? Most major media sites don't actually link to the bill.

One of them claimed it was the national defense authorization act. A 1,400 page document that doesn't contain the word "Epstein" anywhere in it but god knows what it does authorize. So I had to track the amendment down through the actual government website. And it has had four actions.

Amendment SA 3849 proposed by Senator Schumer to language proposed to be stricken by amendment no. 3748.

And that is pretty confusing.

Cloture motion on SA 3849 presented in Senate.

A cloture motion is a formal procedural action used by the U.S. Senate to end a debate and proceed to a final vote. It is the most common way to overcome a filibuster, a parliamentary tactic used by a minority of senators to delay or block a vote on a bill, nomination, or other matter.

Motion to table amendment SA 3849 agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 51 - 49.

To "table something" means to postpone a discussion or action on a motion or item, typically in a meeting, to a later time. So noone actually voted no on this thing.

Cloture motion on SA 3849 rendered moot in Senate.

You don't need a filibuster vote today to keep the Democrats from blocking the NCAA if the topic is scheduled for later.

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And let's see if the Democrats have the balls on them to submit the so called Epstein bill on its own instead of a PR stunt to distract from their latest NCAA changes and assassination of Kirk.

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Eros789 6 points ago +6 / -0

I identify as an Epstein victim, and the entire Democrat party has fucked me over.

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Eros789 1 point ago +1 / -0

31.5% of teachers do not have an educational background in the primary subject they are teaching.
17.1% of teachers used alternative means to become "teachers".
8.8% of teachers are not fully certified to teach.
https://www.epi.org/publication/the-teacher-shortage-is-real-large-and-growing-and-worse-than-we-thought-the-first-report-in-the-perfect-storm-in-the-teacher-labor-market-series/

&

Evaluating 693 undergraduate and graduate teacher training programs, the council found that 40% of programs instruct aspiring educators to use debunked teaching practices, including so-called three-cueing strategies that urge children to guess at words they don’t know rather than sound them out. These methods have recently been banned in some states. https://www.the74million.org/article/new-report-flunks-teacher-training-on-the-science-of-reading/

Red flag on Leftists hating America aside, Leftist teachers hate tests because they can't pass them.

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