Better tell Clayton Tucker the fake farmer that the lowly almond uses an outrageous amount of “his water” and that the Big Wig almond oligarch farmers are stealing it all!
Between 2014 and 2016 journalists accused almonds of “sucking California dry” for using roughly one gallon of water (3.79 L) PER NUT during the state’s record drought.
You know where a LOT of those almonds go? China. So you can truthfully state that the Big Wig Oligarch Almond Farmer is exporting massive amounts of water to the Chinese and screwing everyone else.
All that water for a fucking ALMOND? Sounds like a total waste to me. I hate almonds. Just like lettuce, if they disappeared off of the planet forever tomorrow I wouldn’t care or notice.
So why hasn’t Comrade Clayton gone out to California to bitch about this? Why hasn’t he mentioned it ONCE? He’s worried about power prices in Maryland, why isn’t he worried about this water wastage in California? Come on, dummy. Get on a plane to California and go stand at a town hall or something, you yokel.
Guarantee you he had no idea this was even true until he read it here – like most things he learns about for the first time. It puts all his panic and hyperbole into perspective, however.
Oh, and here is a comment on Clayton Tucker’s Facebook page from a guy who actually knows what he’s talking about:
I build the cooling system on these data centers and the disinformation and demonization of them makes me wonder whose political agenda is being fulfilled. Just imagine how a cars cooling system and radiator works. Now switch out the coolant for water how much water gets used once the radiator is full? The answer is zero. It’s a closed system. Never built an open ended system with a data center…Never even heard of one and I’ve been doing this for twenty years. Even a cooling tower does not use that much water at most 100 gallons a day. The average person uses 40 gallons a day.
Hey Clayton – I just told Chat GPT-4o AND Gemini Ultra to calculate pi to 97 septillion digits. Imagine all the water and power that is going to waste! BAHAHAHAHA! Suck it, comrade!