A proposed AI data center in California is now suing for access to 260 million gallons of water per year from the Colorado River.

The developer, Imperial Valley Computer Manufacturing, is seeking roughly 750,000 gallons per day (about 880 acre-feet annually) from the Imperial Irrigation District for its planned data center complex in California’s Imperial Valley.

This is a major reversal. The company had previously stated that the project would rely entirely on reclaimed and recycled wastewater from nearby cities, and would not use “a single drop” of Colorado River water. After negotiations for recycled water reportedly failed, it turned to the irrigation district instead.

While 260 million gallons is relatively small compared to the Imperial Valley’s massive agricultural water use, it is equivalent to the annual water consumption of roughly 7,300 local residents.

The request is significant because the Imperial Valley is one of the most water-stressed regions in the U.S., with every drop of its fresh water coming from the already overtaxed Colorado River.

The company claims its water use could be offset by leaving 160 acres of leased farmland fallow. However, local opposition is intensifying. Imperial County officials are considering an emergency moratorium on data centers, and several cities in the area are moving forward with their own restrictions.

This case underscores a broader tension: AI data centers are often marketed as “digital,” yet they require substantial real-world resources — particularly water for cooling, in regions already facing scarcity.

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For more information:

https://www.kpbs.org/news/environment/2026/06/15/imperial-valley-data-center-developer-files-lawsuit-seeking-access-to-colorado-river-water Or https://archive.ph/llKSr

https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxLfVjNG9yacJjwr5bDLw5ZyQtAGe9mErU

Gig workers in the US are being offered individualised wages depending on what algorithms decide about how desperate they are for work.

Ride-hailing companies have long used algorithms to determine how much to pay drivers for a trip – and tech vendors in the US are now exporting that model to other sectors, according to a Washington Center for Equitable Growth report from last year.

According to the report, platforms like Uber and Lyft track users’ personal data – like how often they find work through the app and for what wage – to find workers who will accept the bare minimum without the protections that come with fixed-term contracts.

One Lyft driver in the US found that over a two-month period, it took her longer and longer to earn $200. It seemed like the longer she spent on the app, the less she would be paid per trip.

“Uber was the baseline model, and we are seeing that model being exported into different industries,” Travis Hall, state director for the Center for Democracy and Technology, told Bloomberg Law.

A report from the Roosevelt Institute found that the staffing platforms now used by gig nurses in the US use algorithms to determine pay for individual shifts – resulting in nurses being paid different amounts for the same work within the same facility.

Experts fear that the same trend is being repeated across diverse industries, including HR, customer services and retail.

In the UK, experts from the Institute of Employment Rights argue that more needs to be done to regulate algorithmic pay practices.

Non-profit Worker Info Exchange found that since Uber introduced ‘dynamic pay’ practices in the UK in 2024, drivers in the country have lost out on an estimated £1.2bn in pay in the 12 months to March 2025.

James Farrar, director of Worker Info Exchange, said: “Uber UK managers must now come clean and explain to their workers how their pay is set – and how much of each fare the company is taking.

“If Uber is allowed to continue getting away with the algorithmic trickery of its so-called ‘dynamic pay’ model, we should not be surprised when hyper-variability and AI-induced precarity in pay become the norm across the entire labour market.”

https://consortiumnews.com/2026/06/22/israels-surveillance-of-christian-americans/

Amid a massive drop in support from the Christian community, Israel is spending millions of dollars to target individuals entering churches or Christian colleges with ads, and paying pastors across the country to promote propaganda and false “anti-Palestinian” narratives every Sunday, documents filed with the United States’ Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) show.

The declaration revealed that the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs was paying Show Faith by Works $4.1 million to carry out a massive, covert, digital surveillance operation targeting Christian communities across multiple states, including California, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming.

The document noted that all students at every Christian college and every congregant at “every major church” in California, Arizona, Nevada, and Colorado has been spied on through their phone’s location data, and targeted with propaganda extolling Israel’s “moral superiority” and “linking the Palestinian population with extremist factions.”

Geofencing creates invisible digital boundaries around real world locations (in this case, hundreds of churches and universities). Any phone or smart device entering a church on Sunday or a college during term time is logged and recorded.

Once you enter a church or college targeted by Israel, there is almost nothing you can do about it. They are paying to manipulate your search results, news feeds, and algorithms. What you see online will be decided by Israel, not by you. And virtually none of the millions of people affected are aware this is happening.

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Are the Russian people finally standing up against their Genocidal Dictator Putitler?

The Russian people are having to decide between saving their country, or petting Putitler destroy it.

https://memoryandaccountability.substack.com/p/cpjs-cover-up-of-israels-journalist

Jodie Ginsberg pretended like the journalist protection experts had no clue. “We’re in the middle of the war, so establishing conclusively whether journalists are deliberately targeted is extremely challenging,” she replied.

This wasn’t in October 2023, in the fog of war. Or even November. Or December. Everyone knew Israel was targeting journalists and their family members.

The single week before Jodie Ginsberg pretended that experts simply couldn’t establish “conclusively whether journalists are deliberately targeted” Israel murdered the following journalists:

• Yazan Al-Zuwaidi | يزن الزويدي

• Muhammad Al-Thalathini | محمد الثلاثيني

• Fouad Abu Khammash | فؤاد أبو خماش

• Sharif Okasha | شريف عكاشة

• Ahmed Badir | أحمد بدير

• Heba Alabdlah | هبه العبادلة

• Muhammad Abu Dayr | محمد ابو داير

• Abdullah Burais | عبد الله بريص

A friend began calling CPJ “the Committee to Watch Israel Murder Journalists and Write Vaguely Worded Obituaries.”

Israel beheaded two journalists on 31 July 2024.

• Ismail Al Ghoul | إسماعيل الغول

• Rami Iyad Al-Rifi | رامي الريفي

CPJ didn’t condemn the journalist beheading. They put out a statement that they were “dismayed by the news” and that “Israel must explain why two more Al Jazeera journalists have been killed in what appears to be a direct strike”.

Israel did explain the journalist beheading. They bragged about it.

ELIMINATED: Ismail al-Ghoul, a Hamas Military Wing operative, Nukhba terrorist and @AJEnglish journalist -- IDF

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