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https://techiegamers.com/texas-data-centers-quietly-draining-water/ AI Data Centers in Texas Used 463 Million Gallons of Water, Residents Told to Take Shorter Showers According to a July 2025 investigation by The Austin Chronicle, data centers across Central Texas are consuming millions of gallons of water every day. This comes as many residents are being asked to reduce their usage due to dwindling supplies. The problem is not limited to one city. In San Antonio, Microsoft and U.S. Army Corps facilities used a combined 463 million gallons of water in 2023 and 2024, according to local water utility SAWS. That’s the equivalent of usage for tens of thousands of households. Stargate and the scale of AI The Stargate campus in Abilene is expected to become one of the largest AI data centers in the world. Microsoft has partnered with OpenAI to develop advanced infrastructure capable of supporting the next generation of large language models. What’s received far less attention is how much water it will take to keep that infrastructure running. “These centers are showing up in places that are very water-stressed, said Margaret Cook, a water policy analyst at the Houston Advanced Research Center. There’s no requirement for them to have conversations with communities about how much water they’ll use.” Cook pointed out that these projects often break ground with little notice, largely due to regulatory loopholes. Texas law prevents most local authorities from regulating or even tracking how much water a facility consumes. A surge with little oversight According to the Chronicle article, a white paper submitted to the Texas Water Development Board projected that data centers in the state will consume 49 billion gallons of water in 2025. That number is expected to rise to 399 billion gallons by 2030, nearly 7% of the state’s total projected water use. “People don’t think of data centers as industrial water users, but they are,” said Robert Mace, executive director of The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University. In the Hill Country region, where several new AI-focused centers are under construction, locals are sounding the alarm. Not only do these facilities demand significant water for evaporative cooling, but much of that water evaporates and cannot be recycled. While some facilities rely on recycled water, many still draw heavily from drinking water supplies. “Once that water evaporates, it’s just gone,” Mace told The Austin Chronicle.
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Austin area vehicle registration
jimmyjazz replied to jimmyjazz's topic in Can You Help Me With This?
It's good thru Thursday, I just don't want to drive around on an expired sticker (even if I have the receipt). I'll try HEB tomorrow. Thanks. -
Equine preseason, I guess.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Gatorubet replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
We should just let the grass grow in any place named Iowa, Kansas, or a Dakota after the next pandemic in no vaccination/rural /healthcare land- and let the buffalo herds come back. Of course, we won’t have a working electric grid to allow us to freeze the thousand pounds of meat - but we can smoke it using the wooden furniture of abandoned family farms. -
She was holding on all right, just not to Jimbo. And it's Candi with an i, cause that's how skanks spell it.
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So no more state inspections for my car?
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EOG maybe?
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Dammit. I liked Brix a lot.
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What I don’t understand is why we re-enact this tortuous ritual of heartbreaking remembrances of gun victims when we refuse to do anything about curbing gun violence, other than shaking our heads? It’s macabre.
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2026 World Cup in North America: Step 1 - the host cities
mdmost replied to Jive Turkey's topic in Futbol
This was pretty cool to run across. I have no idea why I didn't go see at least one match at the Cotton Bowl in the summer of 94. The first match kicked off around the same time a former NFL HOF running back fled from cops on a slow speed chase in Los Angeles. -
“allergic”… bullshit
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Anyone have trammel batting lead off this year?
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TAMU and Mizzou catching strays on SEC Rant . . .
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You are welcome to provide any compelling evidence that contradicts their reporting. I see nothing in that self description that I disagree strongly with.
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My friend, Devin Huffines. This guy was a walk on for the end of the Mack years and beginning of Charlie and mainly played on the special teams. We staffed Boy Scout summer camps and other events together when we were in middle and high school. And yes for those of y'all that are from the DFW area, he IS related to the Huffines car dealers(his grandpa and uncle own it). "From Plano to Denton down to Lewisville too, Huffines has it!"
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Only when it's open.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
satyanash replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
2003 was a wild offseason. Washington fired Rick Neuheisel for betting on college games, Iowa State's bball coach was fired for getting publicly wasted at frat parties and hitting on co-eds, and then the Price scandal came along and blew everything previous out of the water. -
Texas Basketball Recruiting Notes: It's Miller Time
TheBryMan81 replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
She must have also attended Texas State. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
utee94 replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
Roll Tide! It's Rolling! -
I see y'all still don't understand how bail and pretrial detention work. Garza is a huge turd, but for not prosecuting, not for failing to keep petty criminals locked up for weeks or months prior to trial.
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Well Written Content OU Football 2025 - League Average & Loving It
Knoxtnhorn replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
That Doering idiot is still going on about Mateer. Good Lord.
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