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Dominion Power claims power usage keeps climbing, so they need to build new power plants that we’ll all pay for with rate hikes. Internal records show that the increase is coming from data centers. (virginiamercury.com)

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[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 5 points 12 hours ago

Colorado is home to 56 data centers, all located along the Front Range. The vast majority of the facilities are in metro Denver, including a massive 177-megawatt hyperscale facility under construction by QTS Realty Trust in Aurora - https://www.govtech.com/policy/proposed-data-center-tax-break-sparks-debate-in-denver

My water bill is increasing 30% this year and we met our snowpack targets last winter. This city's population can only increase by around 50k more people before there's a hard limit on our water infrastructure and every booming town near those data centres- 80% of the state's population- has to compete for that water along with the large landowners. Those rivers are tributaries of the Mississippi and Colorado Rivers supplying some of the most productive farmland along the way.

All for bazinga machines. That classic apocalypse scenario of the paper clip machine turning everything into paper clips at least results in all the matter in the universe being converted to something useful, but we're doing that so that eugenicist vampires can make shitty chat bot and dog money-themed pyramid schemes. We can't declare jihad on thinking machines soon enough.