Sterling Lee

Pay attention to the water in Texas Once all these 400 data centers are built, and they tap the ground water, guess what happens to the soil . Texas will become the Sahara Desert if our aquifer is not safeguarded

If you think data centers are using all the water wait till you find out about farms

Texas is losing billions in data center tax breaks. Not only do they take our water, farmland, and power, but they also take our tax dollars. I agree with the TX Farmers Union: no tax breaks for data centers.

> I stop at a random restaurant in Midland, Texas to eat by myself >long time friend also randomly stops there to eat by himself >we eat together (serendipity) >we talk oil and gas, AI, our dads passing away, meaning of life >he prays for me in middle of restaurant, we bro hug, then leave A lot of people on twitter complain about American society going to shit, but you're probably not looking in the right places

Top 10 reasons data centers must be stopped. 1. Increased demand for energy puts our electric grid at risk and raises our electricity to points unknown. 2. Data centers prop up dirty energy like Gas and Coal 3. Data centers endanger water supplies 4. Data centers create a ton of pollution 5. Data centers drain public funds because states are footing the bill even though these centers do not provide jobs. 6. Data centers threaten jobs. Look at all these companies that just laid off thousands of workers who built their AI. Some reward. It’s like training your replacement except your replacement is free. 7. A Blight on Communities. The long and disruptive construction periods for data centers are wreaking havoc on many communities, leading to longer commute times, increased traffic accidents, and closed playgrounds. 8. The imperil the economy. The AI boom is propped up on the precarious stilts of monumental debt, speculation, and financial trickery. The way things are going, Big Tech may even plunge us into an economy-wide meltdown like the dot-com crash of the 2000s or the 2008 financial crisis. 9. They create toxic trash for smaller countries. Already, high-income countries have made a habit of dumping their e-waste on developing ones for “disposal.” The workers and communities receiving this waste are routinely exposed to heavy metals like lead, mercury, and cadmium, which are linked to a host of health harms, from neurodevelopmental impairments to cancer. 10. They steal our personal data. Any public information not behind a paywall may be devoured by AI companies, including voter registration data, social media profiles, passport photos, and even credit card numbers. Some AI tools have even been trained on private medical. These data centers are a danger to local communities and must be stopped. AI does far more harm than good. In the hands of billionaires it is simply evil.

Goodbye high plains aquifer. We will just drink red dirt. It’s fine, I’m sure it will be fine. The massive companies rarely lie. Right?

WOW 🚨 A new Data Center is being built in the Texas Panhandle that will use more power than ALL THE HOMES IN TEXAS COMBINED TIMES 2 - It’ll be the largest data center in the world, at 18 million square feet - The site will span over 6,000+ acres (9 square miles) - It will use up to 11 GW - The on-site generation is described as producing more electricity than 15 states use at their peak