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Author: Roshi Von Tech
It finally rained
Another song from my 2024 Alchemy Album (Edge of a Cliff). The reason why I don’t want to release any music for now is because when something is released it is very difficult to take down. I prefer things fluid. Only time can tell me whether I want live with these songs or not. What happens after a year is, I want to slightly change the lyrics.
Microsoft is inflicting the same drought damage to Quebec now, as it did to Iowa in 2023
This summer many rivers in the Laurentians became non-navigable and people had to carry their kayaks in the mud. Riviére Rouge for example is almost but disappeared. Several Youtube videos document how kayaks get stuck.
Microsoft did the exact same thing to Iowa’s rivers in 2023. What Quebec has in common with Iowa is construction of data centers authorized by corrupt officials without prior consultation of the affected communities.
We can infer that these droughts clearly stand out as a modus operandi in Big Tech’s strategy to inflict irreversible environmental destruction to all North American land, not just the land they bought.
https://futurism.com/critics-microsoft-water-train-ai-drought
Dublin: People Before Profit, an example to follow
Mansfield and Fayetteville, Georgia (BBC, Bloomberg)
Odlham County, Kentucky scraps data center
Melbourne wants answers, too
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-15/greater-western-water-data-centre-proposals-foi/105529020
“Greater Western Water is assessing 19 data centre applications requesting to use a total of nearly 20 gigalitres of water a year. The proposed usage has prompted calls for mandatory water efficiency standards for data centres.”
Newton County, GA: Their Water Taps Ran Dry When Meta Built Next Door
another one from NYT (from July, 2025) https://archive.ph/0c7qw
original link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/technology/meta-data-center-water.html
“After Meta broke ground on a $750 million data center on the edge of Newton County, Ga., the water taps in Beverly and Jeff Morris’s home went dry.
The couple’s house, which uses well water, is 1,000 feet from Meta’s new data center. Months after construction began in 2018, the Morrises’ dishwasher, ice maker, washing machine and toilet all stopped working, said Beverly Morris, now 71. Within a year, the water pressure had slowed to a trickle. Soon, nothing came out of the bathroom and kitchen taps.
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A data center like Meta’s, which was completed last year, typically guzzles around 500,000 gallons of water a day. New data centers built to train more powerful A.I. are set to be even thirstier, requiring millions of gallons of water a day, according to water permit applications reviewed by The New York Times.
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Some projects are so large that they require the land to first be “dewatered,” which is when groundwater is pumped out of the surrounding area in preparation for construction.”
We’ve been having the same issue all over Quebec. People who rely on wells have to dig ever deeper only to find out there is no underground water left anywhere. Big Tech is currently building data centers in Quebec which explains why the water is missing. It is interesting that nobody informed us about the “dewatering” process.
Counties across Quebec have been importing water with cistern trucks.
NYT on AI data center backlash in Mexico and Ireland
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/technology/ai-data-center-backlash-mexico-ireland.html
Here is a non-paywalled version https://archive.ph/WtLgN.
The NYT says that “nearly 60 percent of the 1,244 largest data centers in the world were outside the United States as of the end of June”
Indianapolis blocks Google data center (for now)
it doesn’t mean it is over, I saw that they have a clause where, when they withdraw voluntarily (due to public opposition) Google can return in 3 months and secretly build the rejected project behind everyone’s back. It happened in Minneapolis.
https://futurism.com/future-society/residents-shut-down-google-data-center
People overtook the street and stopped traffic: Indianapolis’ latest data center debate
If we have learned anything from the pro-Palestine protests is that the only way to stop a genocide in the making is for everyone to become as insistent and obnoxious as possible for as long as possible. The time has come to pull out the tents and occupy ALL campuses and city halls everywhere at once. I am open to street prayers and blocked traffic for this one. These are not normal times.
Now, Google is planning a $15 billion data center in Vizag, India. The weather must be perfect over there. https://blog.google/intl/en-in/company-news/our-first-ai-hub-in-india-powered-by-a-15-billion-investment/