Keep the data centers away from our Great Lakes.
September 28, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Keep the data centers away from our Great Lakes.
What do these AI pricks think will happen when they drain all the rivers and lakes to cool their data centers? How will they keep their stupid bullshit going then?
July 21, 2026 at 2:46 AM
What do these AI pricks think will happen when they drain all the rivers and lakes to cool their data centers? How will they keep their stupid bullshit going then?
Welcome @globservingsystem.bsky.social and thanks for all the #GreatLakes data collection and science. Not gonna be this calm in the upper lakes tonight!
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December 4, 2024 at 6:51 PM
Welcome @globservingsystem.bsky.social and thanks for all the #GreatLakes data collection and science. Not gonna be this calm in the upper lakes tonight!
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Keep the data centers away from our Great Lakes
September 28, 2026 at 11:35 PM
Keep the data centers away from our Great Lakes
It's safe to assume that all major LLMs are scraping Bluesky data to train future models.
As an open protocol, Bluesky is one of the few sources of fresh human-generated content that anybody can gobble up. So all this is probably going in the models.
There are submarines in the Great Lakes.
As an open protocol, Bluesky is one of the few sources of fresh human-generated content that anybody can gobble up. So all this is probably going in the models.
There are submarines in the Great Lakes.
July 22, 2026 at 8:39 PM
It's safe to assume that all major LLMs are scraping Bluesky data to train future models.
As an open protocol, Bluesky is one of the few sources of fresh human-generated content that anybody can gobble up. So all this is probably going in the models.
There are submarines in the Great Lakes.
As an open protocol, Bluesky is one of the few sources of fresh human-generated content that anybody can gobble up. So all this is probably going in the models.
There are submarines in the Great Lakes.
More than 100 data centres have gone up in the Greater Toronto Area, on Lake Ontario. The Great Lakes region is drawing the facilities because of the favourable climate and abundance of water for cooling systems. What does this mean for our freshwater ecosystems?
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Are data centres a threat to the Great Lakes? | The Narwhal
Ontario has a lot to learn from the U.S. about the data centre boom, and what it means to the Great Lakes
thenarwhal.ca
May 20, 2025 at 12:44 PM
More than 100 data centres have gone up in the Greater Toronto Area, on Lake Ontario. The Great Lakes region is drawing the facilities because of the favourable climate and abundance of water for cooling systems. What does this mean for our freshwater ecosystems?
thenarwhal.ca/great-lakes-...
thenarwhal.ca/great-lakes-...
The Ohio EPA is drafting a new type of permit the would let Ohio data centers dump millions of gallons of wastewater into rivers and lakes and streams every day.
July 14, 2026 at 2:02 PM
The Ohio EPA is drafting a new type of permit the would let Ohio data centers dump millions of gallons of wastewater into rivers and lakes and streams every day.
Data generated by the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory has helped to successfully avoid a repeat of a 2014 crisis in Toledo, Ohio, when nearly half a million people were warned to not drink the water or even touch it.
By @annaleighclark.bsky.social
By @annaleighclark.bsky.social
Millions of People Depend on the Great Lakes’ Water Supply. Trump Decimated the Lab Protecting It.
The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals…
www.propublica.org
May 9, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Data generated by the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory has helped to successfully avoid a repeat of a 2014 crisis in Toledo, Ohio, when nearly half a million people were warned to not drink the water or even touch it.
By @annaleighclark.bsky.social
By @annaleighclark.bsky.social
If oligarchs had to build data centers on their property, they'd find a way to build them to be self supporting.
They'd have to build lakes, ponds, drill wells, and use renewable energies.
If it was totally their dime, data centers would be non-intrusive and self supporting.
They'd have to build lakes, ponds, drill wells, and use renewable energies.
If it was totally their dime, data centers would be non-intrusive and self supporting.
August 16, 2026 at 2:35 PM
If oligarchs had to build data centers on their property, they'd find a way to build them to be self supporting.
They'd have to build lakes, ponds, drill wells, and use renewable energies.
If it was totally their dime, data centers would be non-intrusive and self supporting.
They'd have to build lakes, ponds, drill wells, and use renewable energies.
If it was totally their dime, data centers would be non-intrusive and self supporting.
This one goes out to my friends at @RealGLOS for collecting data on the Great Lakes. If you live in the Great Lakes basin you should support them for safer boating, beaching, fishing, paddling, freight hauling and of course…science about me 🌊🌊
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May 28, 2025 at 2:24 AM
This one goes out to my friends at @RealGLOS for collecting data on the Great Lakes. If you live in the Great Lakes basin you should support them for safer boating, beaching, fishing, paddling, freight hauling and of course…science about me 🌊🌊
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Humans. GLOS (Great Lakes Observing System) is critical to safety for fisherman, boaters, freighters and beachgoers/swimmers. These buoys &weather towers give public real-time data about what is going on near & off shore. Call your federal rep NOW
(202) 224-3121
www.mlive.com/environment/...
(202) 224-3121
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Severe cuts at NOAA would kill Great Lakes data buoy network
“This map is going to go dark,” say Great Lakes Observing System directors.
www.mlive.com
April 21, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Humans. GLOS (Great Lakes Observing System) is critical to safety for fisherman, boaters, freighters and beachgoers/swimmers. These buoys &weather towers give public real-time data about what is going on near & off shore. Call your federal rep NOW
(202) 224-3121
www.mlive.com/environment/...
(202) 224-3121
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"Large data centers, many devoted to researching artificial intelligence, are expected to use more than 150 billion gallons of water across the U.S. over the next five years, according to the advocacy organization Alliance for the Great Lakes."
AI could deplete drinking water sources around Illinois, Midwest
Large data centers working on artificial intelligence that need water for cooling could drain area water supplies, a Great Lakes advocacy group warns.
chicago.suntimes.com
August 21, 2025 at 11:46 PM
"Large data centers, many devoted to researching artificial intelligence, are expected to use more than 150 billion gallons of water across the U.S. over the next five years, according to the advocacy organization Alliance for the Great Lakes."
Ice cover is dwindling due to warm weather in the w’shed. Shout out to the fabulous job @NOAA does in monitoring and supplying the public with science and data about the Great Lakes 🌊🌊
February 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Ice cover is dwindling due to warm weather in the w’shed. Shout out to the fabulous job @NOAA does in monitoring and supplying the public with science and data about the Great Lakes 🌊🌊
This is honestly shocking. All of the info so far says data centers destroy environments, and particularly water. City of lakes?? Data centers??
Council Members Shaffer, Rainville, Vetaw, Palmisano, and Warren just voted to try and stop the City Council from even considering a moratorium on data centers in Minneapolis.
Apparently some supposed DFLers are so captured by corporate interests they’re pro data centers now. Appalling.
Apparently some supposed DFLers are so captured by corporate interests they’re pro data centers now. Appalling.
April 23, 2026 at 5:48 PM
This is honestly shocking. All of the info so far says data centers destroy environments, and particularly water. City of lakes?? Data centers??
GOOD NEWS from NYS Finger Lakes: Lansing town board votes to move forward with drafting a local BAN on data centers, including the one planned for the Eisenhower-era coal plant on the east shore of Cayuga Lake (which a bunch of us helped shut down in 2019).
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‘We just need to rip off the bandage and say no’: Lansing Town Board in favor of banning data centers - The Ithaca Voice
About a year after a proposal to construct a data center on the shores of Cayuga Lake upended local politics in the Town of Lansing, local officials took a step […]
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October 1, 2026 at 4:16 PM
GOOD NEWS from NYS Finger Lakes: Lansing town board votes to move forward with drafting a local BAN on data centers, including the one planned for the Eisenhower-era coal plant on the east shore of Cayuga Lake (which a bunch of us helped shut down in 2019).
ithacavoice.org/2026/09/lans...
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So why are they allowing Data Centers that will drain their rivers, lakes and aquifers?
April 11, 2026 at 5:08 PM
So why are they allowing Data Centers that will drain their rivers, lakes and aquifers?
The Great Lakes could be at risk due to data centers powering AI, a study warns. blockclubchi.co/45UDVKm
September 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The Great Lakes could be at risk due to data centers powering AI, a study warns. blockclubchi.co/45UDVKm
🌍 Hidden lakes under Antarctic ice
Using a decade of CryoSat-2 data, scientists found 85 new active subglacial lakes, boosting the total by 58% and revealing vast hidden water networks.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#SciComm #Antarctica 🧪
Using a decade of CryoSat-2 data, scientists found 85 new active subglacial lakes, boosting the total by 58% and revealing vast hidden water networks.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#SciComm #Antarctica 🧪
Detection of 85 new active subglacial lakes in Antarctica from a decade of CryoSat-2 data - Nature Communications
Wilson and colleagues identify 85 previously undocumented lakes beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet. These subglacial lakes fill and drain with a variety of patterns, revealing interconnected hydrological...
www.nature.com
September 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
🌍 Hidden lakes under Antarctic ice
Using a decade of CryoSat-2 data, scientists found 85 new active subglacial lakes, boosting the total by 58% and revealing vast hidden water networks.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#SciComm #Antarctica 🧪
Using a decade of CryoSat-2 data, scientists found 85 new active subglacial lakes, boosting the total by 58% and revealing vast hidden water networks.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#SciComm #Antarctica 🧪
Funding for this important research vessel comes from the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
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Aboard the Lake Guardian, Scientists Search for Clues About the Great Lakes’ Health - Eos
One of the longest-running lake monitoring programs provides data critical for researchers and resource managers.
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September 21, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Funding for this important research vessel comes from the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
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This is a good article on AI & the planet, because it looks at data infrastructure, which is where the “two cups of water” per prompt turns into rivers and lakes.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggeri... It's not one to discuss scale but it's by far the text that's ignited most engagement on AI and environment among technical undergrads, that I've seen
The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud
Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
January 7, 2025 at 5:00 AM
This is a good article on AI & the planet, because it looks at data infrastructure, which is where the “two cups of water” per prompt turns into rivers and lakes.
A recent report warns the Great Lakes region is not prepared for the unprecedented, growing demand from data centers and other water-heavy users.
Surging number of data centers around the Great Lakes could lead to water shortages, report says
The region is not prepared for the unprecedented demand from data centers and other big users like agriculture.
trib.al
September 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
A recent report warns the Great Lakes region is not prepared for the unprecedented, growing demand from data centers and other water-heavy users.
Do you work on lakes globally? Check out what is, to my mind, the most complete global database of lakes (~6M) and associated attributes, newly published in WRR. Also the basis for SWOT lake data. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
March 19, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Do you work on lakes globally? Check out what is, to my mind, the most complete global database of lakes (~6M) and associated attributes, newly published in WRR. Also the basis for SWOT lake data. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
When you want to see, there are signs everywhere! Very low Ice for the Great Lakes. Some NOAA services are now not online…
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February 5, 2025 at 1:34 PM
When you want to see, there are signs everywhere! Very low Ice for the Great Lakes. Some NOAA services are now not online…
glerl.noaa.gov/data/ice/ www.glerl.noaa.gov/data/ice/spa...
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We have to keep AI data centers away from the Great Lakes
October 15, 2025 at 2:38 AM
We have to keep AI data centers away from the Great Lakes
Rights groups and some locals are concerned that Coast Guard program could become a data collection project
Surveillance drones deployment on US’s Great Lakes raises data collection fears
www.theguardian.com
June 9, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Rights groups and some locals are concerned that Coast Guard program could become a data collection project