AOC must be trying to set a personal best in stupid.
She needs more treatment than that "water"…
Evaporated water from data center cooling towers is basically distilled steam , pure, clean H₂O vapor with zero minerals, bacteria, or junk. Only the pure stuff flies off into the air like a giant humidifier, just like nature does from any lake. The leftover concentrated water gets treated and regulated before any discharge, same as every power plant or factory on the planet. It’s not toxic sludge.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is at it again.
The congresswoman from New York held up a jar of murky, dirty water during a recent appearance and claimed it’s what residents in Morgan County, Georgia, are now forced to drink because of a data center in the area.
She presented it as proof that big tech and data centers are destroying local water supplies.
Here’s the clip:
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Saying anything to get votes even if it’s an outright lie. It’s an old school politician’s trick. Used for generations.
The argument isn’t that that’s what the data center is doing, it’s that that’s what the CONSTRUCTION OF the data center is doing to the groundwater.
Which… it’s earthwork and excavating (and it sounds like they’re using explosives). *Any* building would be causing this if it’s true regardless of what it’s earmarked for. Blame bad construction standards.
Remember, this is the woman who claimed the world would end in 12 years due to climate change.
This woman is incapable of honest discourse. Whether it’s because she’s an inveterate liar or dumber than a stump is unclear. I suspect a heady mix of the two.