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2026-03-14 Cyber

Look back: Data Centers Causing Serious Water Demands And Issues

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Posted by NN2N1 2026-03-14 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1792 views ] Top

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Some may remember the data center vs water warnings from last year.

Here is a March 2026 US DATA CENTER LOCATION MAP

Side Note: Just returned from visiting a rural area, where several homeowners fresh water wells have started having issues. Their wells are either going dry or becoming mud/sand gritty and burning up pump motors. This naturally start with the shallower depth wells 1st, now are reaching some at deeper depths.

Some, because of their rural location, do not have the County/Town provided drinking water access.
They are now drilling deeper in hopes of finding a water source.

OBTW: Some authorities are using the Ga Rainfall data to defend the Data Centers
(https://www.weather.gov/ffc/rainfall_scorecard)

Posted by NN2N1 2026-03-14 06:33|| 2026-03-14 06:33|| Front Page Top

2 I was in the huge telehouse/fiber buildout with Qwest in the late '90s. It failed when IBM introduced multi-freq fiber.

I'm projecting qubits and quantum computing at scale before these builds actually happen.

Posted by Skidmark 2026-03-14 14:12|| 2026-03-14 14:12|| Front Page Top

3 Data centers (by law) ought tp be required to clean and recycle water they use, greatly reducing the need for outside water!

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2026-03-14 17:49|| 2026-03-14 17:49|| Front Page Top

4 Place them next to the new nuke plants.
Share the evaporators.

Posted by Skidmark 2026-03-14 23:54|| 2026-03-14 23:54|| Front Page Top

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