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It’s not drought, it’s pillage: data centers take the water

Using a slew of aliases to buy land and make sweet deals, getting secret, historic tax breaks, getting electricity at less than half of what ordinary people pay, being sold public land for less than half the market value, slurping down the cheapest of cheap water like there’s no tomorrow, this is how Big Tech rolls.

https://gerrymcgovern.com/its-not-drought-its-pillage-data-centers-take-the-water/