a very, very important story about a very REAL water problem with data centers: people putting them in places where residents *already don’t have much water*
jae holzman
NEW: In 2022, Bitcoin miners promised Corpus Christi millions in tax revenues in exchange for the de-annexation of their water-sucking cryptomine. Four years later, the city is in a water crisis & the mine has yielded only a minute fraction of what was promised. www.texasobserver.org/corpus-chris...
The city declined to supply public records on the mine’s water usage, citing a state law that allows nondisclosure of an individual customer’s account.
