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re: Texas halting approval of Data Centers until audits are completed!
Posted on 8/4/26 at 11:41 am to doubleb
Posted on 8/4/26 at 11:41 am to doubleb
Estimated daily rate of 1.5 M per day, but that was before announced expansion. Registered to use up 23 M per day if needed. Again the Google center isnt releasing any information on water usage.
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Posted on 8/4/26 at 12:14 pm to DarthRebel
a car cooling system is closed loop, same for AC they dump a ton of heat and use very little water. I can understand some locations being concerned about water usage but for much of the east it's a non issue.
Posted on 8/4/26 at 12:17 pm to America250
Texas should do this for a mosques and temples.
Posted on 8/4/26 at 12:24 pm to America250
We have plenty of water in Louisiana. It’s a subtropical climate. Keep spreading your CCP talking points.
Posted on 8/4/26 at 12:30 pm to Riverside
I'm fine with pulling the reigns on these data centers. They should be supplying their own power and should be forced to use a closed loop water cooling system. There should be no water coming from aquifers for an open system.
We are in trouble in some parts of the country with water. What comes next is the tech companies buying water rights everywhere. This shouldn't happen.
You have the means to have closed loop systems. Leave the water for communities, farmers, etc.
We are in trouble in some parts of the country with water. What comes next is the tech companies buying water rights everywhere. This shouldn't happen.
You have the means to have closed loop systems. Leave the water for communities, farmers, etc.
Posted on 8/4/26 at 12:33 pm to America250
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Estimated daily rate of 1.5 M per day, but that was before announced expansion. Registered to use up 23 M per day if needed. Again the Google center isnt releasing any information on water usage.
So the daily use isn’t forecasted to be 23 million per day.
Posted on 8/4/26 at 1:35 pm to jp4lsu
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What comes next is the tech companies buying water rights everywhere.
We don’t have these east of the Mississippi river. We have plenty of water.
Also, the new data centers are designed with minimal water usage.
Posted on 8/4/26 at 1:42 pm to America250
Louisiana, meanwhile, is going to gift these data Centers sweetheart deals on utilities while mandating zero cogen capacity and stiffing residential customers with brown outs and higher bills to pay to build more power generation capacity while aquifers get depleted and surface water polluted.
Posted on 8/4/26 at 1:47 pm to Bourre
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Now the Chinese are funding the left and gullible “Republicans” to oppose data centers for the same reasons.
Orrrr the could be doing that AS WELL as concerned citizens wanting to know the hidden terms of a deal agreed to BEFORE anyone has seen it as a citizen of the area affected.
This post was edited on 8/4/26 at 1:48 pm
Posted on 8/4/26 at 2:04 pm to Bourre
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The Chinese are running the same playbook the Russians ran against us. The Russians funded leftwing organizations to oppose US oil and gas drilling because it threatened their oil and gas markets. Now the Chinese are funding the left and gullible “Republicans” to oppose data centers for the same reasons.
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This review reportedly stemmed from several data centers’ failure to comply with a PUCT survey to determine water and power usage. The agency says that it asked 377 data center companies to send the required information, but only 28 have submitted so far.
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More than 1,800 projects are awaiting the go-signal from the regulator to connect to the grid, 90% of which are data centers. The combined demand that these applications will put on the grid is expected to hit 474 gigawatts, which is five times that of the current peak demand that ERCOT has recorded and is much higher than forecasted data center demand by 2035.
Is it propaganda... or math? 474 GW is stupid.
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This post was edited on 8/4/26 at 2:07 pm
Posted on 8/4/26 at 2:08 pm to America250
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When will Louisiana and Gov Landry do the same?
F**k that shite. Bring on the data centers and the power plants. Hell let Entergy build another nuclear reactor at Grand Gulf. North Louisiana needs the jobs and economic benefits.
Posted on 8/4/26 at 2:37 pm to America250
Texas already had 297 data centers Do any of you really think these data centers will some how evade the EPA?
Posted on 8/4/26 at 3:16 pm to BCvol
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a car cooling system is closed loop, same for AC they dump a ton of heat and use very little water.
You are comparing a hyperscale data center to a car radiator or a residential air conditioning system, which significantly understates the scale involved. To be clear, I have no issue with data centers, and in many parts of the country there is more than enough water available to support them.
What I object to is the claim that a closed loop cooling system does not consume water. That is simply not accurate. Closed loop systems typically consume less water than some alternatives, but they still consume water through evaporation, blowdown, and other operational losses. Marketing them as "almost no water use" or "water free" is misleading.
It's also important to look beyond the data center itself and consider the power generation required to support it. Depending on the cooling technology used at the power plants, the water consumed to generate electricity can be many times greater than the water used directly by the data center. In the case of the new Meta project in Louisiana, it is entirely plausible that 80% or more of the total water footprint comes from the power plants rather than the data center itself. In that scenario, the water used for power generation could exceed the data center's direct water consumption by a factor of ten or more.
Posted on 8/4/26 at 3:36 pm to Riverside
Why dont you stop being foolish and lying to everyone? The city of West Monroe owns and operates the Sparta Reuse Facility to offset the Graphic Packaging mill usage of 10 million gallons of water per day.
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In 1996, city officials in West Monroe noticed an alarming trend: water was being overdrawn from the Sparta Aquifer by eighteen million gallons per day (18MGD) beyond the recharge rate and if this trend was not reversed, Ouachita Parish and sixteen (16) other parishes in Northeast Louisiana would lose their source of fresh water for potable water consumption, agriculture and industry. The Sparta Aquifer is the primary fresh water supply for nearly eight hundred thousand (800,000) people and the industries that employ them. Of three major cones of depression in the aquifer, the most significant was directly under the paper mill in West Monroe. Depletion of freshwater would cause saltwater encroachment and become unusable.
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Posted on 8/4/26 at 3:51 pm to Riverside
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Keep spreading your CCP talking points.
You morons that think it’s ONLY ccp propaganda that is making people question data centers make you sound like mouth breathing sheep similar to the Marxists on the left who parrot everything from CNN.
God forbid people want transparency on things being built in their neighborhoods or next to it.
Posted on 8/4/26 at 3:54 pm to loogaroo
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At least we will have a more gas fired power plants and beefed up infrastructure once the tech companies no longer need these huge facilities. Plus, I doubt many of the data centers will be completed before the technology advances.
This is something I’m curious about how it’s gonna turn out.
Posted on 8/4/26 at 3:58 pm to HubbaBubba
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At some point, if this does not stop, when the water and electric bills of ordinary Americans are impacted to the point of clear excess, people are going to revolt. The early signs are there and they'll only be ignored for so long.
This is where I’m at and want to know. We don’t know what’s what because they’ve signed ndas and won’t tell the public anything except “we promise wink wink”.
But god forbid we ask simple questions EVERY tax paying citizen should want to know it makes us CCP propaganda believers. fricking retards sound like the leftist tards.
Posted on 8/4/26 at 4:04 pm to WeeWee
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F**k that shite. Bring on the data centers and the power plants. Hell let Entergy build another nuclear reactor at Grand Gulf. North Louisiana needs the jobs and economic benefits.
I agree as long as you and me aren’t footing the bill for these companies
Posted on 8/4/26 at 4:05 pm to how333
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really think these data centers will some how evade the EPA?
WTF does the epa have to do with costs of local utilities and potential blackouts from not enough power sources?
Posted on 8/4/26 at 4:09 pm to aubie101
quote:Is the water contaminated to the point it is useless. What do they do with it? I assume these large amounts of water are for cooling the servers and building they are sitting in. I have heard from people that are close to hear a constant roar from the large turbines pulling air thru the building, I guess?
Water we haven’t noticed yet any hike.
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