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> This is based on some ideological pillar of being autarkic, as the Islamic Republic was generally built upon the fear of outside influence This sure is an interesting way to frame fifty years of organized sanctions
I wonder what Iran has done to receive sanctions
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Believe it or not, other things do happen in the country aside from what is reported on in western media. Claiming this is all they do is heinously ignorant.
Don't presume to put words in my mouth. No one is claiming that military activities is all that Iran does. But the reality is they do choose spend a fortune on military aggression. These are optional activities. They could choose to stop and devote those resources to civilian infrastructure if they wanted to.
This is the comment I originally commented under.
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Las Vegas is actually very efficient with their water use.
Maybe, but the southwest of the US uses more water than it has and can import. With droughts and overconsumption, the water supply is at risk. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwestern_North_American_me...
Water is going to be needed to cool all these data centres going up around the world. They will gobble up electricity and water.
You realize the cooling system in a data center is a closed loop that circulates a fixed volume of water, right? Your kidneys are filtering 200 liters of blood per day. OMG, where's all that blood coming from?!
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Las Vegas is actually very efficient with their water use.
LOL. Las Vegas water prices are ridiculously low for the paltry amount of water they have. It's hard to get people to not waste the water when the price is artificially kept low. Las Vegas water is less expensive than mine, and we have in excess of 10x the precipitation and everything is naturally green.
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> This is based on some ideological pillar of being autarkic, as the Islamic Republic was generally built upon the fear of outside influence You say that if it was some cultural oddity, and not a completely understandable reaction and exactly the same any state with "western culture" would have done in the same situation.
I don't say it's a cultural oddity, western culture had its fair share of self-destructive regimes which ideological underpinnings created great disasters, especially in the 20th century
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Las Vegas is actually very efficient with their water use.
Being efficient in watering golf courses in the desert in certainly nice, but maybe it's time to question having over 50 golf courses in the desert with an impending massive water shortage.
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You don't think Iran's situation is also mostly its own doing?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%2527%C3%A9... A key motive was to protect British oil interests in Iran after Mossadegh nationalized and refused to concede to western oil demands.
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Am I missing something? How data centers in US/EU evaporating water thousand of miles from Iran affect it? Does it disturb the rain cycle in Iran or something?
The grandparent comment asserts that as data center roll-out continues, water scarcity becomes an even bigger issue globally. The parent comment said DCs don't use water. This claim is easily proven to be incorrect. But, correct, DCs outside Iran have little/no impact on the situation in Iran today.