Americans across multiple states are being urged to conserve water as drought conditions intensify, reservoirs shrink, and utilities issue increasingly urgent warnings. At the same time, a different kind of consumer is quietly demanding unprecedented...
You’re wayyyy underselling it here. Some aquifers take thousands of years to refill - and some won’t ever refill because they were filled when climate conditions were different.
If an aquifer under a desert was filled when the region had regular rainfall, that water isn’t coming back on any human timescale. If we pump it out and a data center evaporates it away - poof, it’s gone from that area. Pretty much forever.
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You’re wayyyy underselling it here. Some aquifers take thousands of years to refill - and some won’t ever refill because they were filled when climate conditions were different.
If an aquifer under a desert was filled when the region had regular rainfall, that water isn’t coming back on any human timescale. If we pump it out and a data center evaporates it away - poof, it’s gone from that area. Pretty much forever.