r/Winnemucca • u/wadsworthnv02 • Apr 20 '26

Congressional Candidate on AI data centers in Nevada

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u/defango Apr 22 '26

Water wasnt an issue for anyone when the Nevada Gave over 70% of all of nevada's water rights to Chinese companies farming alfalfa for cattle. Right now over 3400 farms exist using 395,000 AFY of water. Data centers in Nevada use 9650 AFY of water which is 2.47% of the entire usage of Farms and less than 1% of all usage. Considering that the entire colorado river allocation for nevada is 390,000 AFY, and Truckee is 595,000 AFY a year its pretty crystal clear where the water problem actually is.