> CLIMATE CHANGE DENIERS: Millions of Americans brace for potential water and power cuts as two crucial US reservoirs plunge to historic lows

Climate is always changing

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climate has always changed
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All the temps are normal where I live no records broken

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Just relocate everyone in the affected area to the Pacific Northwest.

Some dot posting from a hole somewhere says something and the lemming lefties all believe it.

What, specifically, are you going to do to solve the purported problem, OP?

As opposed to just crying about it and pointing fingers as liberals are wont to do.

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Imperial Valley Computer Manufacturing publicly pledged its planned California AI complex would not draw from the drought-stressed Colorado River. Now it's suing the local irrigation district for exactly that water, and its legal strategy could hand every future data center developer a blueprint to drain the West.

Sebastian Rucci spent months telling anyone who would listen that his company's project wouldn't touch the Colorado River. From December 2025 onward, Rucci and Imperial Valley Computer Manufacturing repeatedly pledged that their planned 330-megawatt AI complex in Southern California's Imperial Valley would rely on recycled wastewater from nearby cities, not the already overtaxed river. It was a clean story. It didn't hold.

After negotiations with the cities of Imperial and El Centro for recycled water agreements fell through, IVCM pivoted. On April 22, 2026, the company filed an application with the Imperial Irrigation District for industrial water service. IID denied it nine days later. IVCM then sued, seeking roughly 260 million gallons of Colorado River water per year, or about 750,000 gallons per day, to cool the proposed 950,000-square-foot campus. As KPBS reported in June, the company described the river water as a "last resort." That framing is doing a lot of work.

The legal argument IVCM is making deserves attention, because it's not just a local dispute over one data center's water bill. Rucci's company leased 160 acres of active farmland adjacent to the proposed site. That land historically received about 804 acre-feet of water annually, which the company says closely matches the data center's projected needs. The argument: idle the farmland, claim the farm's existing water allocation, and redirect it to the server racks. No net new demand on the river. Case closed.

It's clever. It's also a playbook. As inewsource noted, this kind of fallowing arrangement raises questions far beyond whether one California developer gets his data center built. Water advocates and legal experts point out that the arrangement is plainly designed not to use the land for agriculture, but to acquire the water rights attached to it. If the courts accept that logic, every data center looking to plant itself in the arid West has a template: lease a farm, fallow the fields, take the water. The agricultural land base shrinks. The river doesn't get a drop back.

Where'd you copy that from?

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When the Colorado river water got divided up, it was in an unusually wet period and some unwarranted assumptions were made.  The west has been a desert ever since Lake Bonneville dried up.

Y'all remember when Lake Travis near Austin was empty.  It's full again.

It's weather.

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Where'd you copy that from?

  it’s all over the news.

Anyhow it’s all a fuqing scam.  The whole idea of “transferable water rights” is bullshyt when it’s all taxpayer subsidized and the people getting the water don’t even pay enough to cover the pumping costs, let alone the value of the water.