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  1. 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.
  2. TLDR: 3 dudes assault women and a good samaritan trying to defend the women. Good samaritan gets jaw broken. Fuck theses scumbags. My money is that they are not from Austin. Yes that area of BC is a shithole. That's not the point. Fuckheads. Dude in orange shorts, dude with cowboy hat, long hair dude with green shorts.
  3. Fuck Shipley. $4.99 for a large cup of coffee. That was 3 months ago, and I am never going back.
  4. Thanks for the heads up. I had forgotten to put the dipshit Helo on Ignore. Now, done!
  5. Meet with DOJ a few days ago. Today files an appeal to the SC on her conviction. HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM................................ https://www.axios.com/2025/07/28/ghislaine-maxwell-supreme-court-appeal-epstein-files Ghislaine Maxwell pressed ahead with an appeal to the Supreme Court on Monday, seeking to overturn her conviction on the grounds that she was unlawfully prosecuted for sex trafficking minors with Jeffrey Epstein. Maxwell's appeal revolves around a highly controversial 2007 plea agreement Epstein negotiated with the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of Florida. "The United States," the plea agreement stated, "agrees that it will not institute any criminal charges against any potential co-conspirators of Epstein, including but not limited to" four other suspects. Maxwell was not listed as one of those suspects — but her lawyers argue she didn't need to be. Between the lines: Maxwell's attorneys, the husband-wife team of Mona and David Oscar Markus contends that a plain reading of the deal protects unnamed co-conspirators as well, since it explicitly says it's "not limited to" those listed. Markus also argues that language in the deal — promising immunity from "the United States" — means Maxwell couldn't be prosecuted for Epstein-related crimes anywhere in the country. "The government's argument, across the board, is essentially an appeal to what it wishes the agreement had said, rather than what it actually says," Mona Markus wrote in the petition. The other side: The Justice Department says former U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta, who negotiated the deal, didn't have authority to bind other federal districts — including the Southern District of New York, where Maxwell was ultimately tried and convicted. The intrigue: Federal appeals courts have split over the key question of whether a plea deal struck by one U.S. Attorney's Office applies to the entire Justice Department. The Justice Department acknowledged that divide in its own brief, but has urged the Supreme Court to reject Maxwell's appeal. "The government was not even aware of [Maxwell's] role in Epstein's scheme at that time," DOJ argued, calling her "at most, an incidental third-party beneficiary of the agreement."
  6. Noped the fuck out of there.
  7. Very cool....that the steering wheel does absolutely nothing.
  8. I guess it's better than the kids getting here, getting detained by the gestapo, and then sent to dog pens to tease alligators. We saved them from themselves, apparently.
  9. Austin is a shithole. Please tell everyone you know. Please tell strangers. Please tell Forbes to write articles about it.
  10. You mean we have a route which targets the back pylon, you know, like having the QB and the receiver on the same page on where the ball and receiver be? Maybe we had those routes last year but it seemed like we were just throwing the ball anywhere in the end zone, that the ball and the receiver were going towards different end points.
  11. Knew a guy from high school who died getting struck by lightning wade fishing Galveston bay. It doesn't look like lightnight directly struck the pole but not sure how he still get some shock.
  12. The whole state of Idaho laughs at this little town.
  13. My piece of shit cult leader likes to fuck young girls and lie about it but holy shit, Macron's wife is a dude!!!!!!!! Dipshits are gonna fucking dipshits.
  14. Here's the context for that "ad"
  15. Cool, I just found another stupid aggy wannabe dipshit to put on ignore.
  16. ...which would lead to posting in the Horrible Ways to Die thread.
  17. Who knew? He's always been a piece of shit. Again, fuck you if you voted for him. You know full well that he's a pedo, rapist, racist, piece of shit. But hey, if that's your thing, fuck you twice.
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