Actually, Cotton Farmers Are Destroying The Water Supply FAR FASTER Than Any Data Center. They Also Lose Money Doing It.

The Ogallala is being pumped to death.

About 2.5 million irrigated acres of cotton pull 300–400 billion gallons per year from the Ogallala. The aquifer recharges at 0.5–1 inch per year. Cotton demands 12–24 inches.

Wells across the region have declined to 3–4 gallons per minute — the functional death spiral. At current depletion rates, large portions of the Southern Ogallala will be economically unrecoverable within 20–30 years.

Irrigated Cotton (High Plains) 300–400 billion gal/yr

ALL Texas Data Centers 25–49 billion gal/yr

Cotton uses more water in two weeks than every data center in Texas uses in a year: 8–16x more water.

Zero public outrage.

Here are some facts

So Clayton’s beloved Big Government subsidized all this shit and it resulted in the aquifer being destroyed. Sounds about right.