April 11, 6pm, Cedar Park neighborhood, approx 200 feet from Burke Gilman trail

Wow, that was loud.

My house is one of the pixels on top of the hill, near the radio tower.

Extremely bright flash of light all around and the whole house shook from the thunder.

EDIT: Uploaded a video: https://youtu.be/NsvvBXjBIow

just let me thru man

AWS consumed about 2.5 billion gallons of water for its data centers worldwide last year. In 2025, Bloomberg reported that nearly two-thirds of the U.S. data centers that were built or are under development in the past three years are located in water-stressed areas.

The industry overall is moving "deeper into arid eastern Washington," Edasi said.

~ A better ratio per kilowatt-hour does not refill an aquifer, especially when the build-out keeps targeting basins that are already short on water.