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The original piece by rolling stone describes Amazon's role:

- Experts say Amazon’s arrival supercharged this process. The data centers suck up tens of millions of gallons of water from the aquifer each year to cool their computer equipment, which then gets funneled to the Port’s wastewater system. All of the data center water gets mixed into the dirty lagoon wastewater, which only increases how much water the Port must then discard over the fields. As Greg Pettit, who served at the DEQ for 38 years and led the development of Oregon’s Groundwater Quality, explains, “the more water you put on, the faster you’re going to drive the nitrogen through the soil and down into the aquifer.” -

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So even if the datacenter expelled pure H2O it would still be a problem by increasing the hydraulic head and speeding up the spread of the agricultural runoff polluted water that already was in groundwater?

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https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/data-c...