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by sitkack 296 days ago
Not only that, but the guy is clearly out of his element, but makes a big smart looking report and this wrong by a factor of 10.

Ground water is not fungible economic value. When its gone it is gone because the aquifers collapse. The CA central valley dropped 9M from 1925 to 1977 [1]

The space the water was in, is gone. Datacenters pumping groundwater will do the same exact thing.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1jby06/this_is_the_im...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-35582-x