Notices by Gerry McGovern (gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green)

The world has moved beyond a water crisis and into a state of global water bankruptcy, according to a 2026 UN report.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/01/1166800

Direct water use by US data centers alone more than tripled to ~17.5 billion gallons between 2014 and 2023, and may double again by 2028.
https://www.sierraclub.org/colorado/blog/2026/05/colorado-can-t-afford-water-needed-new-data-centers

All for growth

All for the greed of the tech bros

We need to resist this death dance of the high priests of the Growth Death Cult.

This AI data center will be bigger than 2,000 Walmarts and dump '23 atom bombs worth of energy' into the environment every day — and locals are terrified

The scale sounds almost unreal. The proposed campus reportedly spans around 40,000 acres in Box Elder County, Utah, an area larger than many major cities.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ai-data-center-bigger-2-124356503.html

How the data centers operate. Always in secrecy.

"When the county utility investigated, officials discovered two industrial-scale water hookups feeding a data center campus located 20 miles south of downtown Atlanta. One water connection had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and the other was not linked to the company’s account and therefore wasn’t being billed."

https://www.flyingpenguin.com/datacenter-sprawl-pushes-georgia-into-dangerous-water/

In other places, they don't have to steal the water: they get it for free.

A data center drained 30M gallons of water unnoticed — until residents complained about low water pressure

Residents in Fayetteville, Georgia, noticed low water pressure last year. The utility discovered two unaccounted-for water connections at one of the nation’s largest data center campuses.

“We get this notification from Fayette County water system saying you need to stop watering your lawns to help conserve water."

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/08/georgia-data-centers-water-00909988

Social impacts of gold mining in Europe

Does anyone have any information about the social or environmental impacts of gold mining in Europe?

Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere just hit a ‘depressing’ new record
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/carbon-dioxide-levels-in-the-atmosphere-just-hit-a-depressing-record-high/

Solar energy is reaching record highs.

Wind energy is reaching record highs

Coal energy is reaching record highs

Oil and gas energy are reaching record highs.

The problem is growth. We live in the final stages of a Growth Death Cult.

We are in the worst of all worlds:
More wood
More coal
More oil
More gas
More hydro
More nuclear
More wind
More solar

It's an energy CONSUMPTION crisis.

"A retired journalist was falsely accused of serious crimes by Microsoft Copilot. The AI linked his name to criminal cases he once reported on and published personal details, including his address and phone number."

https://amp.dw.com/en/ai-chatbot-falsely-accuses-journalist-of-crimes/video-77013145

How to Stop A Data Center in Your Backyard

"The records showed city planners had given their blessings to the data center, saying it would not result in any “significant environmental impacts.” They had used the developer's own impact assessment in place of a more thorough state environmental review."

Big Tech literally mails in documents to governments all over the world, and governments then publish what they have been sent, word-for-for, as policy.

Big Tech owns us

https://lataco.com/stop-sgv-data-center-building

"They went door-to-door to tell their neighbors what the city had not told them: The data center would use twice as much electricity as all of Monterey Park. The 14 “backup” generators would burn 200,000 gallons of diesel every year, without a blackout. And more when the grid price was high."

"They promised 200 jobs and, in the same conversation, no traffic."

Lies. Lies Lies. Big Tech was AI long before AI.

“They underestimated the community's passion.”

https://lataco.com/stop-sgv-data-center-building

Goverment sues a newspaper to stop it telling the public how much water Google is using

"While the bill marks an escalation in the city’s water woes, the dispute regarding how much flows where goes back to 2021, when The Dalles sued The Oregonian, the state's largest newspaper, over public records requests. If granted, it would have revealed Google's local data center’s water usage. Instead, the lawsuit kept the data private."

https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/data-centers-are-hogging-town-s-water

In 2024, fossil fuels supplied 85% of direct primary energy consumption; wind turbine and solar panel (W&S) electricity gave us only ~3%."

"The human economy will be extracting 165 Gt of raw materials from the Earth annually by 2050, a 60% jump from 2020. Most of the mining, refining, transportation and subsequent manufacturing using these materials will be powered by fossil fuels since electricity won’t/can’t do the trick."

https://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv22n05page15.html

"Demand for crucial metals and rare earths is set to explode as the world attempts a massively energy- and material-intensive renewable energy transition and AI data centres threaten to take down fragile electrical grids (a key component of our failing infrastructure)."

https://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv22n05page15.html

I know that we are in a bad water situation and are under restrictions. Then, why do so many companies get to use so many tons of water, but we can’t?

Are these Artificial Intelligence Units using more water than a little city does in total in one day?

Per “Unit” (Data Center): A single, large, data center can consume up to 5 million gallons of water per day, which is comparable to the daily water usage of a town with 10,000 to 50,000 people.

Really?

https://www.ocala-news.com/2026/04/28/i-dont-know-if-water-usage-restrictions-apply-to-data-centers-using-millions-of-gallons/

E-waste hits record high, raising health red flags

https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/bd/corporate/health/e-waste-hits-record-high-raising-health-red-flags-5441146

All over the world, waste--and e-waste in particular--is surging. You want to really know about this civilization, go to the mining dumps, go to the e-waste dumps in the Global South, filled with e-waste dumped there by the Global North.

"In efforts to provide more nutritious foods, generate a greater variety of crops, and establish their role in agriculture, women are creating a more sustainable food system. These agricultural practices not only demonstrate how sustainable procedures help the economy and provide food for communities; they also contribute to the fight against climate change. The common customs found in communities in Peru, Mexico, and Guatemala have proven eye-opening."
https://hir.harvard.edu/resilient-roots-indigenous-agriculture-and-climate-change-in-latin-america/

White male supremacy is by far the greatest threat to life on earth. Yes, men are the problem.

There are five “demi-gods” of AI, "are all male, and they all have their own interests, shareholders, agendas and egos. They include xAI CEO Elon Musk, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and the lesser-known CEO of Google DeepMind, Sir Demis Hassabis."

https://womensagenda.com.au/latest/the-5-male-demi-gods-of-ai-need-our-vigilance/

"The Trump administration is advancing deep-sea mining in U.S. waters near the Pacific territories and Alaska, a process Indigenous leaders have identified as "resource colonialism" due to its prioritization of corporate interests, the permanent ecological damage it causes, and the fact that its profits flow outward to shareholders while providing no economic benefits to communities struggling with high costs, precarious jobs, and faltering public services."
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/why-alaska-and-u-s-territories-get-damage-not-dollars-from-deep-sea-mining/

"North Carolina is in the midst of a serious drought. That drought is raising concerns about planned data centers in the area and in North Carolina that could use millions of gallons of water per day. Industry estimates show a single data center could use up to a billion gallons of water a year and as much as 2.7 million gallons a day during peak summer heat. That is enough water to fill about 180 swimming pools or take roughly 159,000 showers."
https://www.wrdw.com/2026/04/21/concerns-arise-over-data-center-water-usage-amid-drought/

The men who rule Palantir are classic products of Western culture. Thiel, Karp, Trump, Musk, Zuckerberg etc. etc. are the refined result of a genocidal and ecocidal culture that swept out of Europe to devour the world.

We must understand the core cause of why we have entered the Sixth Mass Extinction. White men are the fanatical drivers, full of their puffed up ego and vanity and blood lust for violence and the destruction of all that is gentle and kind.

White men think themselves civilized

"Pure DC is building the city’s largest data center in Amsterdam Westpoort, with Microsoft as its sole tenant. The complex consumes 420 million liters of industrial water per year for cooling. Its electricity consumption is equivalent to that of nearly all Amsterdam households combined."

https://www.techzine.eu/news/infrastructure/140589/data-center-for-microsoft-consumes-up-to-420m-liters-of-industrial-water-a-week/