Terminal Flows From the Great Basin, Jackson Frishman ponders a West when water runs out

Apropos, here's an old piece of mine on the topic that I'm still proud of:
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No, there is not plenty of water for data centers And, yes, we should worry about it, along with the facilities' power use

I was going to unload on Matt Yglesias' recent flow of utter bullshit re. data centers and western water, but Jonathan Thompson has saved me the trouble. Abundance mindset really fails in places where there really is not abundance.
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Nebraska sues Colorado over water it draws from the South Platte River - Sentinel Colorado Gov. Polis: "We have also continued to meet in good faith with Nebraska, despite its attempts to intimidate Colorado landowners and damage our agricultural communities."

Gov. Polis: 'We have also continued to meet in good faith with Nebraska, despite its attempts to intimidate Colorado landowners and damage our agricultural communities'

sentinelcolorado.com/state-and-re...

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Yesterday’s view of Lake Mead at an estimated 33-34% of capacity and Hoover Dam from cruising altitude. Hoover Dam turns “90” in a few months. It’s said that the amount of concrete used in building it was enough to pave a road stretching from San Francisco to New York City. #drought #westernwater