Open Thread | Data Centers- We Can’t Continue Down This Path

Read this and the video shown at the link is devastating.

Wall Street Apes
@WallStreetApes
This is the Rio Grande in New Mexico

It’s currently completely dry

Meta’s data center in Los Lunas in central New Mexico is using 75 million gallons of water per year from the Rio Grande water

But they’re not the only Data Center using Rio Grande water, there’s many more.

The Rio Grande River is dry through here for a few reasons

– Extremely low snowpack this winter
– Record-low reservoir levels like Elephant Butte, which is New Mexico’s largest on the Rio Grande are at critically low levels
– Agriculture uses 85% of water use from the Rio Grande in New Mexico, it’s unsustainable long-term
– Data Centers

The exact number actively drawing from it right now is not fully public due to limited transparency on water rights

Total data centers in New Mexico: Around 21 operating or planned facilities. These centers collectively consume up to 1.8 billion gallons per year

Large proposed projects like Project Jupiter near El Paso are in the Lower Rio Grande region and would require significant ongoing water use

This isn’t sustainable. This can’t continue

https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/2058905926984405155?s=20

Khashoggi’s Ghost
‪@urocklive1.bsky.social‬

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This pretty much sums it up:

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0️⃣BlackBetty ⚓️
@BabyD1111229
Erin Brockovich has launched a new interactive website and map tracking data centers across America — and the response has been overwhelming.

In just the first week, the site logged 1,690 resident complaints, with over 1,800 submissions coming in from 47 states shortly after launch.

Residents are reporting serious issues including:
• Massive water usage draining local supplies
• Sharply rising utility bills for nearby homes
• Constant 24/7 noise from fans and generators disrupting sleep and daily life
• Concerns over e-waste and potential PFAS contamination

This comes from the same Erin Brockovich who famously won a $333 million settlement against PG&E in the 1990s for contaminating drinking water in Hinckley, California.

The map shows operational, under-construction, and proposed AI data centers, allowing people to submit reports with photos and locations.

What the map shows~

• Major AI data centers (operational, under construction, or proposed) across the U.S.

• Overlaid with community-reported concerns (pins from residents emailing in issues).

• You can click markers for details, sources, and reports. It uses a leaflet/OpenStreetMap-based interactive map.

Stats from the site (as of ~May 24, 2026)
• 33 Operational (built & running)

• 44 Under Construction (announced or building)

• 27 Proposed (in pipeline/pending approval)

• Hundreds/thousands of community reports nationwide (earlier reports mentioned 2,700+ submissions from 49 states, with Texas leading heavily).

Many Americans are now asking whether the rapid expansion of data centers is coming at too high a cost to local communities and the environment.

https://brockovichdatacenter.com
https://x.com/BabyD1111229/status/2059260900570206251

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26 Responses to Open Thread | Data Centers- We Can’t Continue Down This Path

  1. rikyrah says:

    LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻
    @LongTimeHistory
    ICE illegally patrol polling place on election day—with 2 vehicles full of masked agents.

    “One of them was outside of their vehicle for at least 30 minutes,” said witness.

    “You cannot intimidate voters!”

    It’s not legal for federal government to have armed officials at voting locations.

    Someone inside the vote center called the local park rangers who said they would “deal with it.”

    The Simi Valley Police Department stated that they were not notified that ICE would be present in the city on Election Day.

    Incident occurred at the Rancho Simi Recreation and Park District Activity Center in Ventura County, California.
    https://x.com/LongTimeHistory/status/2062230109671641354?s=20

  2. rikyrah says:

    Kerry Reid (she/her)
    ‪@kerryreid.bsky.social‬

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    Graham Platner serves as a lesson in how white male supremacy works, btw: be elevated on the basis of your POTENTIAL and PROMISES, and demand that anything objectionable in your past be excused, or reframed as being “antiestablishment” or “maverick.” Do you think women and nonwhite men can do this?
    7:13 PM · Jun 2, 2026
    https://bsky.app/profile/kerryreid.bsky.social/post/3mndt7etgek2l

  3. rikyrah says:

    Lisa Bee (she/her)
    ‪@leebee4life.bsky.social‬

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    This election season has demonstrated that so many leftists don’t even stand on their own principles. The hypocrisy of supporting candidates like Graham Platner and Tom Steyer has been astounding. Any benefit of the doubt that I might be inclined to give those folks going forward is gone.
    12:14 AM · Jun 3, 2026
    https://bsky.app/profile/leebee4life.bsky.social/post/3mnee2dzw4c25

  4. rikyrah says:

    Josh Gerstein

    ‪@joshgerstein.bsky.social‬

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    JUST IN: DOJ’s No. 3 official @ASGWoodward signals dept will take up an option we raised here and pay off many J6ers using ordinary DOJ procedures
    http://www.politico.com/news/2026/06...
    https://bsky.app/profile/joshgerstein.bsky.social/post/3mne7wl6bqs2t

  5. rikyrah says:

    Catherine Rampell

    ‪@crampell.bsky.social‬

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    Josh Barro: “John Fetterman and Graham Platner both flailed into adulthood, living off their affluent parents while not amounting to much. Why have leftists decided this is a good resume for the U.S. Senate?”
    open.substack.com/pub/joshbarr…
    https://bsky.app/profile/crampell.bsky.social/post/3mnf6kjonxk2h

    KennyMack1971
    ‪@kennymack1971.bsky.social‬
    What’s wild is that Black folks peeped game on both of these busters from the jump but because White male Dem consultants with a microphone decided that the Democratic Party didn’t have enough straight White male masculinity here we are.
    https://bsky.app/profile/kennymack1971.bsky.social/post/3mnfjprozts27

  6. rikyrah says:

    UH HUH
    UH HUH

    Me
    @KirkWrites79
    CNN has been putting more and more conservative Black men on their shows. Call me a conspiracy theorist but I don’t believe this is by accident.
    https://x.com/KirkWrites79/status/2062081055624999110

  7. rikyrah says:

    Democracy Docket
    @DemocracyDocket
    🌉 BREAKING: Michael Gates, a former Trump DOJ official who helped lead the its crusade to seize voter data, advanced in California’s attorney general race.

    He’s set to face Rob Bonta — one of Trump’s most aggressive courtroom adversaries — in November.
    https://x.com/DemocracyDocket/status/2062127584024891898

  8. rikyrah says:

    Chris Murphy 🟧

    @ChrisMurphyCT
    The heart of our constitutional crisis in one exchange between me and Sec. Mullin. When asked a simple question – if he will obey court orders – he says he will not because some court orders are “politicized”.

    That’s not how democracy works. And that’s why we are in a crisis.
    https://x.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/2061918564580303198

  9. rikyrah says:

    Mike Levin
    @MikeLevin
    Pete Hegseth has never been fit to run the Pentagon. This week proves it again.

    He just blocked nine Navy officers from promotions they earned. A board of senior admirals picked them on merit.

    Three are women.

    Two are Black men.

    The result is a 22-person admiral list with zero women, in a Navy that’s 21% women and 38% sailors of color.

    Pentagon rules are clear. A Secretary can only pull an officer for serious failings of character, conduct, or competence. These officers had none. Their crime?
    Attending a diversity event years ago. One was flagged for recruitment outreach she did TWENTY YEARS AGO.

    Nearly 60% of the senior officers Hegseth has fired are women or Black.

    He purged a chairman of the Joint Chiefs.

    He pushed out the first woman ever to lead the Navy.

    And he won’t explain himself. Not to Democrats. Not even to Republicans.
    Then he reportedly tried to muscle his own aide onto the list. A guy who didn’t even qualify.

    So let’s be honest about what this is.

    He isn’t raising the bar. He’s rigging it.
    He isn’t picking the best. He’s picking his own. Every officer who serves with honor now has to wonder if merit even matters anymore.

    This man should never have been confirmed. He should not be Secretary of anything. He is gutting the finest military on earth to fight a culture war. Our service members will pay for it. So will our security.

    He should resign in disgrace.
    https://x.com/MikeLevin/status/2062137671640601022

  10. rikyrah says:

    Marc E. Elias
    @marceelias
    ‼️NEW: A federal judge in Massachusetts seemed skeptical of President Donald Trump’s executive order attacking mail-in voting, which, if allowed to stand, could have enormous consequences on the midterm elections.
    https://x.com/marceelias/status/2061905898247799234

  11. rikyrah says:

    Furkan Gözükara
    @FurkanGozukara
    🚨 MASSIVE DEVELOPMENT: Top journalist Rachel Maddow exposes a terrifying reality. If the Trump administration’s DOJ can secretly lie to grand juries, they can arrest and jail absolutely anyone on the basis of nothing.

    Washington is actively paving the way for mass arrests!
    https://x.com/FurkanGozukara/status/2061748334658789649

  12. rikyrah says:

    ProPublica
    @propublica
    The DOJ has dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in just the first six months of Trump’s second term.
    https://x.com/propublica/status/2062142312528871572

  13. rikyrah says:

    🪷 A Harris Democrat✊🏾
    @sephius1999
    Platner is a perfect display of white privilege because we all know no Black candidate would ever be allowed to have this much horrible, deplorable baggage and still be allowed to run for office.
    11:17 PM · Jun 2, 2026
    https://x.com/sephius1999/status/2062025738975367459

  14. rikyrah says:

    LIPS SO PURSED

    Matthew Segal
    @segalmr
    So:

    *Exoneree Calvin Duncan won an election for clerk of Orleans Parish criminal court.

    *The state legislature, AFTER seeing the election results, enacted a law eliminating the position.

    *The Louisiana Supreme Court, in a 4-3 decision, has upheld the law.
    https://x.com/segalmr/status/2061908864388186417

  15. rikyrah says:

    CBS FIRED SCOTT PELLEY

    BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️
    @mmpadellan
    HOLY SH*T, this parting statement by Scott Pelley is WILD:

    “New management has instructed me to INJECT FALSEHOODS AND BIAS into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified.”

    I bet he knows a LOT more, too. 🔥
    https://x.com/mmpadellan/status/2062026574833082472

  16. rikyrah says:

    The United States versus Elon Reed Musk
    @Needle_of_Arya

    Commentary account
    California took all the oxygen out of the room yesterday, but Iowa, which also had its primary last night, quietly took the first step to voting itself back out of the nightmare it put itself in in 2016 and especially in 2018, when it put Republicans in charge everywhere.
    7:24 AM · Jun 3, 2026
    https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/2062148415916736872

  17. rikyrah says:

    Blue Georgia
    @BlueGeorgia
    Jon Ossoff: We cannot let the fact that Bill Pulte is not a household name prevent us from informing the public about the danger posed by his appointment as Director of National Intelligence. This guy has no background in intelligence. He is a thug and a hack who abused his power at the top of the Federal Housing Finance Authority.
    https://x.com/BlueGeorgia/status/2061988947085934777

  18. rikyrah says:

    Jake Sherman

    @JakeSherman
    HUGE scoop from
    @AndrewDesiderio
    and
    @LauraEWeiss16

    MARK WARNER has told JOHN THUNE to try to get
    @pulte
    removed as DNI.

    If he’s in the job, Democrats are threatening to withhold their votes for FISA, which expires in 9 days.

    FISA is at real risk of expiring due to Trump’s decision to put PULTE in as DNI.

    Almost certain that JOHNSON cannot put the bill on suspension now. And can he get it out of rules?

    https://punchbowl.news/archive/6326-am/

    https://x.com/JakeSherman/status/2062144274725052698

  19. rikyrah says:

    The United States versus Elon Reed Musk
    @Needle_of_Arya

    Commentary account
    This part. Unfolding events have given us Iowa and perhaps the most outlier of all outliers, Florida, which no one is paying attention to because it otherwise stays hopelessly red. Maine has become a lightning rod so maybe the gangsters can move in silence in Florida & Iowa.
    https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/2062037489695781111

  20. rikyrah says:

    This made me cry .

    Bennie🕊️
    @Bennieeexyz
    My daughter got invited to a birthday party at daycare when she was younger.

    I almost didn’t think much of it until we showed up and realized it was at McDonald’s.

    Which was weird.

    Most of the parents at her daycare usually went all out….. rented venues, children’s museums, full production stuff.

    So I was expecting something similar.

    But when we walked in… it was just the birthday girl, her brother, and a couple adults sitting at a table.

    No crowd.

    No noise.

    Just waiting.

    The birthday girl saw my daughter and immediately lit up like she’d been waiting all day.

    Birthday girl: You came!

    My daughter: Yeah!

    And just like that, they were gone into their own world.

    It didn’t even take five minutes.

    They started playing with random napkins, crayons from a kid’s meal box, and making up some game only they understood.

    At some point I leaned toward the dad and asked quietly:

    Me: So… more people coming?

    Dad: (laughs a little)

    Dad: Nah.

    Dad: It’s just us.

    There was something about the way he said it.

    Not sad.

    Just… tired in a way that made sense later.

    The kids kept playing like nothing mattered though.

    Full volume.

    Running around the booth area like they owned the place.

    Every now and then I’d hear snippets of their conversation:

    Birthday girl: You’re the dragon!

    My daughter: I’m not a dragon, I’m the captain!

    Birthday girl: Fine. Captain dragon!

    They fully committed.

    For almost two hours.

    At one point the dad came back with extra food and kept trying to offer me more fries like he was genuinely grateful I showed up.

    Dad: You sure you don’t want more?

    Me: I’m good, thanks.

    Dad: I can get you nuggets too.

    Me: I’m really good.

    And I swear I caught the mom stepping out of the hallway, just watching them for a moment.

    Not saying anything.

    Just smiling like she was trying not to get emotional.

    Later she walked past me and quietly said:

    Mom: Thank you for coming.

    Me: Of course.

    Mom: You have no idea what this means.

    I didn’t fully understand it then.
    I do now.

    On the way home my daughter passed out in the car.

    And I remember thinking how strange it is.

    Dad: So… was it fun?

    Me: Yeah.

    Me: Honestly… it was perfect.

    And it really was.
    5:15 PM · Jun 2, 2026

    https://x.com/Bennieeexyz/status/2061934634615599582

  21. rikyrah says:

    Shocked….NOT

    Chicago Tribune

    ‪@chicagotribune.com‬
    Trump’s Education Department is backing away from addressing civil rights for Black students
    https://bsky.app/profile/chicagotribune.com/post/3mnf7ffe7ov2y

  22. rikyrah says:

    Ray Beckerman
    ‪@raybeckerman.bsky.social‬

    Follow
    SpaceX is worth less than half of its $1.75 trillion IPO target, Morningstar says http://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/03/m...

  23. rikyrah says:

    The Intellectualist
    @highbrow_nobrow
    Georgia certified Trump’s 2020 defeat; courts upheld it. Five years later, Kurt Olsen—a lawyer sanctioned over those rejected claims and appointed by Trump in 2025 to oversee election security—is reopening a probe into the 2020 election. https://theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/how-long-will-trump-continue-to-fight

  24. rikyrah says:

    This happenings in the Alaska Senate race..
    will make you LOL

    https://youtube.com/shorts/vA3QpLSsisI?si=n1YBexeDB1LoEryc

  25. rikyrah says:

    Parker Molloy

    ‪@parkermolloy.com‬
    Kind of hate that for the past several years, I find myself dreading the month of June because that’s when the right-wing decides to be *especially* anti-LGBTQ (more than the usual amount, which is a lot) as a way to show how much they hate the idea of Pride.
    6:39 PM · May 31, 2026

  26. rikyrah says:

    Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊

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