Developers say there's plenty of water for a giant data center in southern New Mexico. Some locals are skeptical.
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Developers say there's plenty of water for a giant data center in southern New Mexico. Some locals are skeptical.
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Of course they do. Do you really think they care about the residents, affect on property values or the suggested medical anomalies?? Musk’s and other tech billlionaires believe their own words. He and people who think like him are full of it…they are Trumpians: their goal, power and money!!!!
Basically, there's quite a lot of water available in the Colorado compared to residential/business needs, but it was overallocated (primarily to farms) based on bad data, & now the Colorado no longer reaches the ocean most of the year and farmers don't want to give any back & get paid even to reduce
Doña Ana county grew 87,500 tons of alfalfa in 2023. Rough math puts that at 20-30 *billion* gallons of water. The proposed data center is talking about using 11 *million* gallons of water -- one thousandth of the alfalfa water usage. It's always the cows. www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_b...