Cece Burke

[doomer @uncledoomer]

saving 20% of my income so that in 30 years i can afford 11 months of assisted living. the math is airtight

[Modern Rome in Freefall 🇵🇸 @ljmontello]

I repeat, you *can* demand preemptive bans on corporate surveillance price manipulation before it gets entrenched.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Google’s single data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa consumed 1 billion gallons of fresh water in 2024. One facility. One year. Enough to supply every home in Iowa for five days.

The reason they need fresh water is pure chemistry. Evaporative cooling towers work by running water over hot surfaces and letting it evaporate. 80% of the water a data center pulls in literally vanishes into the atmosphere as steam. You can’t recycle steam.

The remaining 20% becomes concentrated mineral waste. Calcium, magnesium, silica. Every cycle through the cooling loop makes the water more corrosive. After enough passes, it starts clogging pumps and eating through heat exchangers. Multi-million dollar equipment destroyed by limescale.

Recycled wastewater carries even more of these minerals from the start. You could treat it, but less than 1% of U.S. water is recycled. Most cities don’t even have separate pipes to deliver reclaimed water to industrial customers. A data center wanting to use recycled water would essentially need to build its own treatment plant on site. Meanwhile, municipal potable water costs almost nothing.

So they just drink from the tap. Across all its data centers, Google used 8.1 billion gallons in 2024, nearly double what it used three years earlier. The company claims its water stewardship projects “replenished” 4.5 billion gallons. Those projects aren’t even in the same watersheds where they’re pulling the water. Same playbook as carbon offsets. Consume locally, offset globally, call it sustainable.

The trajectory is the real story. U.S. data center water consumption could quadruple by 2028. That’s 68 billion gallons for cooling alone, before the 211 billion gallons consumed indirectly through electricity generation. Two-thirds of new data centers since 2022 are being built in regions already facing water scarcity.

Nobody’s asking why they use fresh water. They’re asking what happens to the towns sharing a water main with a facility that drinks like 50,000 people showed up overnight.

[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process.

This is one that stands out:
https://t.co/qSfcJJG5Zv

[Liam @LegoRacers2]

Have we considered a lifelong Accelerated Reader program where grown adults in their 30s and 40s can get free movie tickets and better airline seats if they read books

[trash jones @jzux]

“use AI or you’ll get left behind” oh no that’s ok you guys go on ahead i’ll be back here with my reading comprehension and critical thinking skills

[reb @rebmasel]

Unrelated: this is a dazzling graphic I want 49 more

[Sam Alberti @sam_alberti]

imagine going out for a fun little community snowball fight only to get home and find that you’ve become the poster child of having a noodle arm

[Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman]

This is devastating.

[Josh Barrie @joshbythesea]

confused as to why this man isn’t on every morning news segment going

[Woke Societies @wokesocieties]

While the government is trying to psyop the country with downed UFO stories a domestic Chernobyl is happening in #EastPalestine Ohio since February 3rd.

Dead animals, people getting sick, arrested journalists and MSM blackout.

A thread.🧵👇

[cate in the kitchen x @catekitchen]

People who forget to eat are amazing to me. I miss one meal and I’m burning bridges with immediate family members. I miss two that’s organ failure, total body and mind shutdown by the end of one calendar day

[Chase Mitchell @ChaseMit]

Can tell I’m 37 because I’m getting a 4:30 PM coffee with somebody and structuring my whole night around it like we’re doing mushrooms in the desert

[ada enechi @adaenechi]

Grow it back immediately Michael

[Dan Price @DanPriceSeattle]

9. In response to worker burnout during the pandemic, did Amazon give them paid sick leave or a raise?

No, they supplied coffin-sized boxes for individual workers to go cry in
https://t.co/hEMnCzeqkC

[jon drake @DrakeGatsby]

No I dont iron my clothes, I dont need to. I simply hang them up in the bathroom while I shower so they get steamed. No it doesn’t work I just wear wrinkled clothes every day. Where am I going, to the opera?

[Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper]

BREAKING 🚨 Video cameras in cell where Jeffrey Epstein's friend Jean-Luc Brunel was found 'hanging' reportedly not running at the time - Daily Mail

[Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper]

BREAKING 🚨 Jean-Luc Brunel, accomplice of Epstein, found dead in French prison