▲ 505 ▼ Data centers consumed 264B gallons of water as drought hits nearly 63% of US (www.barchart.com) submitted 2 months ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/news@lemmy.world 105 comments fedilink hide all child comments cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/1154831 Comments
[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 2 months ago (1 child) we are just missing the plague of locusts that africa and ME has. ours went extinct apparently, because we destroyed thier habitat. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 3 points 2 months ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 3 points 2 months ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent