Hasn't groundwater been overpumped for decades in Idaho? They distributed more than there actually was to distribute; the numbers didn't add up. It seems like rationing was inevitable, because the wells are close to depleted and have been for years.
Not sure about the AI stuff, but there aren't really that many supercomputers or datacenters in Idaho, so idk if that's really the main driver. Farming is far more water intensive than AI will ever be.
ZOG is indeed trying to kill small farms, but they do that more effectively through mortgage racketeering, unfair farming subsidies that favor large corporations, and crop insurance schemes that force the smallest clients out of the industry, all of which is easier and more sinister than the cutthroat legal battlefield that is water policy negotiation.
>>373763Ground water levels in Hideaho are nowhere near Commiefornia, Colorado, Arizona, and Texas lows. The northwest states have had two extremely wet years in a row and snow pack is much higher than predicted.
This however seems to be a rather odd use of the old two pronged strategy: by using the most inefficient water cooling systems to deplete ground water, that creates a possibility of civil, and potentially 'criminal', liabilities.
Prong 1: if you own a section of land and you do not have water rights for use/extraction, then you cannot be blamed for the lack of water. IF, however, water is being used 'illegally', then the land owner is typically railroaded out, or charged.
Prong 2: approximately 8,000 farmers (in total, haven't found how many families exactly) in central Idaho will lose around 500,000 acres of prime land. This doesn't count attached forest property, wetlands, etc.
Many of the scamazon data centers are doing the same shit that nestle does, except in reverse. This IS the easier route: allowing megacorporations to gaslight, blame, and remove nearby farmers. Which has more petro-shekels to defend 'their' rights?
>>373764How much water is actually being consumed by water cooling systems in Idaho? I'm highly skeptical that it's anywhere near water consumption in farming.
>using the most inefficient water cooling systems As opposed to the most efficient water cooling systems? What cooling systems are they using?
>>373764>Ground water levels in Hideaho are nowhere near Commiefornia, Colorado, Arizona, and Texas lows.Idaho has the worst rate of groundwater depletion in the country.
>Idaho has the worst rate of groundwater decline in the country, as measured by the share of monitoring wells that have shown a decline in water levels since 1980, according to The Times’s investigation. Much of that water is used to irrigate crops, particularly alfalfa grown to feed one of the nation’s largest collections of dairy cattle.>Since around 1980, the average annual amount of water the aquifer added to the river has decreased by 432,000 acre-feet.They're on course to deplete the groundwater reserves entirely at this point. They treated groundwater as if it's an unlimited resource, just because it's out of sight and out of mind, but it's running out.
>>373765From what little I've been able to find, 50 gallons per kilowatt hour is considered 'normal' for whole building cooling.
Roughly: each of the small scamazon centers uses 1 kilowatt hour every 30 seconds or so. That's about 600 4-person homes using all electrical devices 24/7.
Which means the small centers are using 2,400 gallons per day for each building, so probably double that for the medium ones and 3-5x for the large.
Comparisons for how much water is used per acre depending on crop:
https://irrigationtoolbox.com/ReferenceDocuments/Extension/Eastern%20States/ESTIMATING%20IRRIGATION%20WATER%20REQUIREMENTS.pdfBroadly shows what's required for watering during the day; evaporation loss from sun+wind is 80% greater than watering at night.
Basically giant swamp coolers with vapor removal systems, inefficient as fuck. Don't have any pictures on hand and can't find anything similar to the ones scamazon centers are using. Definitely not made in the US, probably chink shit.
>>373766Conditions are
that bad? Damn. I should've done a little more digging.
Watched a 5 minute vid on central Commiefornia counties sinking due to aquifer tapping last year. This is exactly what the farmers stated: "If we can't see it, it doesn't bother us. We need the water so we'll keep pumping."
Of course the fucktards were growing THE most water intensive crops and trees: cotton, olives, pistachos, almonds, grapefruit, lemon, orange, dates, sugar beets, and kiwi.
>>373774>Of course the fucktards were growing THE most water intensive crops and trees: cotton, olives, pistachos, almonds, grapefruit, lemon, orange, dates, sugar beets, and kiwi.Alfalfa is an incredibly water-intensive crop too.
In fact, part of the reason they've been growing so much alfalfa is because it's so water-intensive: they use up water on alfalfa to prevent losing water rights on the land.
The majority of the water spent in agriculture in Idaho is being spent on alfalfa for animal feed, not food for human consumption. The terrible water policy they've had for the last half century has encouraged them to deplete groundwater like there's no tomorrow and grow crops in climates that those crops are not meant for.
California is terrible in its own ways as well. They grow those water intensive crops so that their lawyers can demand that they keep their disproportionate share of the Colorado River Compact.
Western water policy is such a shit show, it's unreal.
>>373763>>373763Ai is global bigtechAIDS, AIDS by itself won't kill a man it's about the cumulative load that a stressed system will buckle underneath. So even if farming had been straining the water usage, the Ai datacenters kikes built in the state just push it over the edge, and everyone else has to suffer for their greed to replace everyone.
They aren't shutting down the water to Ai datacenters, and there's more than one in Idaho, they instead are deciding to give 500k acres of farmland the finger because their bigtechAIDS is more important to the Jew than feeding the goyim. This will spike inflation again as the US is plundered and means of production like food are continually attacked and life in the US is downgraded with soaring prices, elimination of the middleclass is the goal of shwab and WEFaggots until you are priced out of everything except what they decide for you like Labgrown mRNA meat gates is rubbing his hands over.
>>373791How much water is being diverted to the AI data centers?
It can't possibly be as much as the water cost to grow 500k acres of alfalfa.