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dekhn • yesterday at 8:50 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Different state, but: almond trees growing in California consume 1 trillion gallons a year (estimated).

So probably we could grow fewer almonds in California.


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dotancohen • yesterday at 10:06 PM

How do you get the California water to this datacenter?

In other words, water scarcity is a distribution problem, not a globally finite resource problem.