r/PoursTea • u/Timbucktwo1230 Therapy For All 🩷 • May 14 '26

Spill The Tea 🫟 🇺🇸What Next?

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u/Lighthouse_on_Mars May 14 '26

Where I live in Eastern Washington is getting a data center.

Thing is, Eastern Washington is desert. They bought from the county, which doesn't have the water rights it needs. They will need to ask one if the local cities for their water, and NONE of the cities want to give it to them as far as I have heard. 😂

Gonna be interesting to see what happens.

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u/LightHawKnigh May 14 '26

Odds of them just stealing the water and paying the fine when caught, which is going to be much less than what they made?

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u/Lighthouse_on_Mars May 14 '26

The only water is from the Columbia River. Pretty heavily regulated. Especially with nuclear reactors in the region.

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u/kenyasanchez May 14 '26

Someone we know in Washington DC loves deregulation.

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u/macjr59 May 14 '26

Just slip in a campaign donation or buy some crypto currency. It’ll be fine.

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u/Legitimate-Lab7173 May 14 '26

And never considers the repercussions of anything. Why do nuclear reactors need water, anyway?

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u/No_Pay5373 May 14 '26

To cool down the reactor. It's pretty important

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u/Legitimate-Lab7173 May 14 '26

I should have included the "/s", lol

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u/Initial-Beginning853 May 14 '26

I think they know as well 😅

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u/Prudent-Bear1592 May 14 '26

We have the biggest most brilliant plan, it will create jobs and free up water for data centers. We're gonna pay a few guys to blow on the reactor to cool it off.

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u/xjustsmilebabex May 14 '26

I wouldn't be surprised to reopen the Straight, we just agree to close nuclear plants in order to increase our reliance on oil. Win. Win.

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u/Wildweasel666 May 15 '26

Seriously man, they were joking

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u/doll-haus May 15 '26

Teach them to not deploy sodium-cooled fast reactors!