In a town called The Dalles in Oregon, USA, local people were worried that Google’s water use was soaring. As is so often the case, the city officials, who had given Google millions in tax breaks, had no intention of letting anyone know how much water Google was using. It was up to a regional… Read More
In powerful and rich Switzerland, the politicians are afraid of Big Tech. They refuse to tell their citizens how much water and other resources Big Tech is using. Think of how powerful and coercive Big Tech is when it can make a rich country like Switzerland afraid to give out basic information on water usage.… Read More
They had the perfect crop for this new desert of theirs, a crop that they had been perfecting and innovating in their old desert: alfalfa. A strange desert crop. Now, alfalfa is a thirsty devil. It grows like hell only when it gets three to four times as much water as a wheat crop would… Read More
Not so long a time ago, in a desert kingdom not that far away, a king and his princely sons and cousins sat around a marvelous marble table. They were brainstorming. “We are oil men,” said the king. “What else can we be?” They argued and discussed, drank brandy and the finest wine, until one… Read More
Industry has a grand history of using science to justify and enable its destruction of the environment. Science, the enabler, has oceans of blood on its hands when it comes to destroying our environment. Though it doesn’t always work out exactly as planned. The Metals Company, a Canadian mining company, had convinced itself that mining… Read More
It’s not enough to devour the land. Every year billions of tons of sand are taken from our oceans, far more than can be replenished, disturbing marine life and leaving coastal communities even more exposed to rising seas. For as long as civilizations have existed, our oceans have been used as the ultimate dumping ground… Read More
Some countries are using 10–30x more water than their natural supply can sustain. Kuwait has the highest water stress level in the world at 3,850%. The U.S. water stress level is 28.2%, making it the 58th highest water-stressed nation globally. “When Apple decided to go titanium with the new iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15… Read More
In the USA, Utah’s scarce wetlands are facing new pressures: inland ports and data centers Microsoft builds water-thirsty data centers in Medina County, San Antonio, near Medina Lake, which has suffered from drought for several years. New study estimates data centers may soon consume as much water as New York City per day AI is… Read More
We are mainly water. The UN has estimated that a human needs about 50 liters of water every day to meet basic needs, though the Global Commission on the Economics of Water states that the total daily minimum requirement could be much higher, at 4,000 liters (if, for example, the water required to grow our… Read More
We are at the beginning of Big Tech’s relentless war on life in order to extract all the resources it requires to grow and consolidate its AI surveillance capitalism global architecture. Sam Altman of ChatGPT has made it brutally clear. Stories about AI’s consumption of water, energy and materials are lies and fake news, according… Read More