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  • Mexico City could run out of drinking water by June 26, an event locals call "Day Zero."
  • Three years of low rainfall and high temperatures have worsened the city's water crisis.
  • The Cutzamala water system, which provides water to millions, operates now at 28% capacity.
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

TBH transporting the water uphill from the sea would take an ungodly amount of power.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Maybe instead of powering AI with nuclear power, we power desalination plants and pumping infrastructure.

All AI will give is recipes made with glue and poop knives.

Water stops thirsty hordes from breaking down your gates.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Nuclear power has been declared double plus ungood by Greenpeace so if you try it they will sue you until you give up.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Oh for sure, I've been advocating AI have to cover their own power as if it weren't subsidized by the government. We could just turn it off and that would be cool with me. I want it to be well known that this was my stance long before the water issues.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't know what covering their own power is supposed to mean.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

They "foot the bill" capische? The cost goes to them. They pay money equivalent to the true cost of the goods they consume, above the rate at which a regular citizen pays for a good produced under a system of government subsidy and/or control.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

However, of all of the places, sunny Mexico wouldn't be the worst option.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

wut?

It's actually pretty high on the list of worst opions, Mexico City has an elevation over 2,000 meters, surrounded by mountains over 3,000 meters tall above sea level. Access to the sun doesn't make this any more or less of a monumental task, it's assumed if they had that kind of energy infrastructure then they would already be using it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I thought solar would be abundant. That's it.