Data Drain: The Land and Water Impacts of the AI Boom - Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Communities across the US are wooing data centers with tax breaks and other incentives. But data centers are resource-ravenous, creating demands for land, water, and power that many host communities a...

Meta's Georgia data center guzzles 500K gallons/day (10% county water), new AI sites demand millions more; Louisiana's Rayville facility eyes 5M gallons/day groundwater, sparking shortages and infrastructure races. #AI #DataCenterWater #MetaAI #DeleteMeta #Resist
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