The data centers in Texas took all the water and now MAGA wants Mexico to pay for it.
this post was submitted on 09 Dec 2025
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Mexico seems to have built a wall, mostly a telecom like wall, where they don't answer phone calls from the white house
that's called a spam filter
Literal spam, look at that guy.
Loves that Trump is threatening to raise our prices even more as a threat.
How about you know, just reducing our water consumption? Solar and wind don't need to consume water to generate electricity. Neither does hydro power.
So Trump doesn't like people just deciding not to follow the terms of the contract?
Shocking considering he does it to everyone else all the time.
What about that big valve in California? Or maybe try raking the forest floor? Or maybe something with light or bleach?
Jewish space lasers?
Can anybody please explain to me, what acre-feet freedom unit means? It sounds so strange. Is it like acre area times foot length?
1 Acre = 4,840 square yards or 43,560 square feet
The Anglo-Saxon acre was defined as a strip of land 1 × 1/10 furlong, or 40 × 4 rods (660 × 66 feet). One acre gradually came to denote a piece of land of any shape measuring the present 4,840 square yards.
An acre-foot is the amount of water needed to cover one acre with one foot of water.
200,000 acre-feet = 246696 megaliters or 0.246696 cubic kilometeres
This is about 64 and a half Webley Stadiums of water.
This honestly seems like the weirdest unit of measurement I've encountered.
I guess that if you don't generally follow a pattern of x-unit = 1000 y-unit then at each magnitude you just need to make up some completely new thing.
"This acre-feet thing is too small to measure the volume of water required for our hyperchad-datacentre. We need a new unit, like 1 hyperchad-datacentre of water."
It makes sense if you're growing crops in the US. planting fields are measured in acres, and plants should get X inches of water per whatever time period. They're typically using sprinkler systems so the water is going everywhere, not just directed around the plant as we would in a home garden.
Fair enough.
In the metric system this is isn't really a problem because the math is much easier to start with.
1 hectare is 10,000 m^2^, so a depth of 1m over 1 hectare is 10,000m^3^, or a depth of 1cm is 10,000m^3^ / 100 = 100m^3^.
I had never heard of it myself, but looking at the definition instantly reminded me of board feet for measuring lumber, but that makes sense as wood is a solid and has a fixed length, width, and height.
For water, especially water you would be moving, I'd think gallons to some per of ten. Moving up from gallons looks to get into barrels it pipes which are also very not-picturable units.
Looking up how ocean volunteers are displayed, cubic miles or cubic km, still seems unimaginable, as what else do we picture on that scale?
I have the Wembley Stadium unit as a spoof of the banana for scale, but even never having seen that in person, picturing a generic stadium of water feels more relatable than whatever acre-feet or cubic miles are.
I'd say acre-feet isn't meant as a unit for general public understanding, but a useful measure for farmers. I have X acres of land, and my crop needs Y feet of rainfall (or it's equivalent in whatever irrigation) over the season. So I need XY acre-feet of water over that time.
For a farmer who knows their crop area and the water needs of their crops, it would probably serve as a useful and intuitive unit.
I can kinda see how, if one were inventing a system of measurements, relatability might be important.
However, predictable units, magnitudes, and relations between scales like distance, volume, and weight is also important.
I guess the two attributes relatability and predictability could be seen to oppose each other?
I mean a "barrel of water" is easier to imagine than 100L of water, but only if barrels are an object you're familiar with.
However, the predictability of the metric system allows you to imagine a container with a volume of 100L even if no such container really exists.
I could visualize a commercial 55 gallon drum ok, but a barrel for volume measurements is 42 gallons. I'd never even heard of that before today.
Give me metric already. I've worked in pharma related fields for 20 years, all anyone cares about there is metric. I can visualize something I never actually seen like a deciliter easier than I can a "barrel."
Its roughly 1 flight of a laden swallow X 1 flight of an unladen swallow
Anything other than having logical measurements.
Only if the water is labelled as coming from the Gulf of Mexico.
The problem with this kind of Mafia bullying is, in the short term it works. The media will fall all over themselves to call him a winner. Then after he's d3@d, the bills come due.
Sick of this shit unalived p-rn all that bs just say what you mean. No corporation controlling this.
You can say "dead" on here