Augustus Doricko

And so once those aquifers run out,

Not only are they empty, which is bad because we can't pump more, but also because there's less pressure in the aquifer, the sediment will compress, and then you lose storage capacity permanently.

So the longer there's not enough water in there, the less you can store in the future.

So making it rain and snow more so that more water percolates into the aquifer

That is also super important so that we have storage capacity in the future.

Hydroelectric, right?

It's clean, stable, baseload power.

I think that eventually nuclear is going to be like the primary way that we produce energy.

But while we're getting towards that, making sure that there's as much water flowing through our rivers as possible so that we have as much clean hydroelectric energy, that's a huge one.

And then also data centers and manufacturing facilities and specifically chip plants

that use a lot of water.

Like Google Cloud Compute uses 25% of all of the water in Northeastern Oregon.

Yeah, yeah.

So in the northeastern quarter of the state, they use a quarter of all the water.

And it's all farmland, right?

So you would think that the farmers would use like 99%, but Google uses a ton.

So if we want to keep using the internet, and if we want to invest in AI, then we need to produce more water as well.

Is there a timeline on when these aquifers will...

be depleted?

Somewhere between the 2040s and 2070s.