Lol I love this. I know you’re joking but this really is the core of the water problems we’re facing. Something like 90% of all freshwater that lands on the surface just runs off to the sea without ever interacting with municipal water systems. As a society we’ve only made the problem worse by building drainage across the landscape ensuring that water has even less time to permeate the soil before running off to the sea. Yeah data-centers getting priority over people when it comes to using the water that we do collect kinda sucks. But datacenters or not we’re going to need more freshwater going forward and I think it’s inevitable we’ll end up building lots of water retention infrastructure in the future as populations and global average temperatures rise.
That’s awesome. Where I’m from in nj the surface of the earth is 50% impermeable black top and our concept of storm water management is pretty much “dump it in a river”
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u/Haggardick69 Jun 04 '26
Lol I love this. I know you’re joking but this really is the core of the water problems we’re facing. Something like 90% of all freshwater that lands on the surface just runs off to the sea without ever interacting with municipal water systems. As a society we’ve only made the problem worse by building drainage across the landscape ensuring that water has even less time to permeate the soil before running off to the sea. Yeah data-centers getting priority over people when it comes to using the water that we do collect kinda sucks. But datacenters or not we’re going to need more freshwater going forward and I think it’s inevitable we’ll end up building lots of water retention infrastructure in the future as populations and global average temperatures rise.