If you didn't know, Utah's Great Salt Lake is already at a record low due to water diversion, causing arsenic-laced lakebed dust to be released into the air.O'Leary's data center will be fueled by a power plant which uses water meant for the Great Salt Lake. 1/4🧵

All this used to be underwaterLake Mead is on the border between Nevada and Arizona and it’s water levels are now critically lowThere are many Data Centers that have been put in the Lake Mead area and draw directly from the lake- Google’s Henderson data center consumed roughly 352 million gallons in one year. It directly pulls from the Lake Mead sourced municipal supply- Flexential Data Center facility used around 20 million gallons in one year - Other Data Centers in the area collectively used