The Colorado water system is a disaster that long predates the invention of computers. The way water rights are implemented in the western US (doctrine of prior

The Colorado water system is a disaster that long predates the invention of computers. The way water rights are implemented in the western US (doctrine of prior appropriation) meant that anyone who owned land through which the river flowed could take enough of it to plant lettuce in the desert. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuma_Lettuce_Days https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuma_Lettuce_Days That's nuts. These practices took so much water that native populations could no longer sustain themselves from the river. Complaints about the relatively low use of water by data centers seems pretty weak in comparison, although I still wouldn't locate them in the desert; the desert is a better place to load up with solar and wind farms. https://coloradoriverscience.org/Water_law_and_policy https://coloradoriverscience.org/Water_law_and_policy if you're interested.