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by thechao 296 days ago
Texas used to have a great desalination plan, but it was left pretty idle. It's ... ok?

https://www.twdb.texas.gov/innovativewater/desal/doc/2024_Th...

The current projection is ~200k acre/ft by 2070 from seawater sources. It'd be cool if the AI/data center folk would combine our three ares of strength: (1) wind; (2) seawater desalination; and, (3) mass liquid piping. We'd use excess offshore wind to desalinate seawater and pump it inland.