floofloof@lemmy.ca to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoData centers consumed 264B gallons of water as drought hits nearly 63% of USwww.barchart.comexternal-linkmessage-square92linkfedilinkarrow-up1484arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldusa@midwest.socialhackernews@lemmy.bestiver.seusa@lemmy.mltechnology@beehaw.org
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minus-squareTollana1234567@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agowe are just missing the plague of locusts that africa and ME has. ours went extinct apparently, because we destroyed thier habitat.
minus-squarebackalleycoyote@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoAgreed. Different environments, different “plagues”. I’ve never seen grasshoppers hit that threshold where they go locust mode, but I’ve seen Anabrus simplex (Mormon crickets) so thick they turn modern highways into slip’n’slides.
we are just missing the plague of locusts that africa and ME has. ours went extinct apparently, because we destroyed thier habitat.
Agreed. Different environments, different “plagues”. I’ve never seen grasshoppers hit that threshold where they go locust mode, but I’ve seen Anabrus simplex (Mormon crickets) so thick they turn modern highways into slip’n’slides.