City of Sinton Gives Emergency Water to Mystery Data Center
It's thirsty.
Update: a previous version of this story attributed the wrong quote to The Austin America-Statesman. We’ve updated the article.
The city of Sinton found itself with an emergency water reserve and decided the real emergency was a data center that doesn’t have enough water to run its servers.
This is happening in a region where Corpus Christi is so dry Abbott has floated a state takeover.
The Austin American-Statesman:
Sinton, with 5,500 residents about half an hour north, is fighting those permits in court, citing concerns for its own water supply. But leaders in Corpus Christi, which supplies water to half a million people, now suggest an ulterior motive: Sinton wants a thirsty, new complex of data centers.
Even Michael Miller, the local construction executive and Corpus Christi planning commission member, raised concern:
So when the taps run dry up the road, the servers stay hydrated.
Priorities.
The buyers, naturally, would prefer you not know who they are.
The companies behind the projects have not been publicly identified.
Secret companies. Public water. A drought. What could possibly go sideways?
Local government’s one job is to keep the water on for the people who live there. Sinton looked at its last-ditch reserve, the one labeled *break glass in case of emergency*, and broke the glass for a server farm.
The drought is the emergency. They sold the cure to the thing that doesn’t sweat.
When Sinton’s faucets sputter, the residents can take comfort knowing a windowless building somewhere is running ice cold.
Want to see where the nearest data center is to you? Check out this handy website by Grason Conservatives:
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3 million gallons a day!
Check the finances of the city council. Serious