Weather persons on PHX tv stations talked about how yesterday was the hottest March on record, but they all skated around the issue of why it was that hot.
Like they wanted to say the quiet part out loud but couldn't 
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Similar to how planting corn from horizon to horizon causes a massive increase in summer humidity in the area. Humans are a geophysical force that act like smol beans.
The Beastie Boys made a song about what to do here and it wasn't Intergalactic
They even refer to mirages, and this is in a desert! It's all coming together!
I'm curious why they would build something that generates a massive amount of heat and uses vast quantities of water in a place that is hot and dry.
this is how the west was won. by rugged individualism and massive subsidies.
They fucking plowed the prairies until they blew away
The prairies accumulated over millennia after the last ice age, blown by wind that was accelerated by the lack of trees. They turned nature into a gun and put it in their mouths.
We need an emoji of Slim Pickens riding the bomb, 
does not cut it to summarize the hog energy that took place
every once in a while i'll go looking for that emote because obviously hexbear would have such an iconic moment from the nuclear war movie and my disappointment is immeasurable every time it isn't there.
One day it’ll get added and you and I can go wahoo all over badosting 
- Big tax breaks (20 year exemption on sales taxes)
- Subsidized electricity costs specifically for data centers
- Unlimited rights to pillage ground water and drain the Colorado river
Arizona is paying them to do it
probably got a massive subsidy from the state or city government