The Silicon Half Truth Putting Profit Over People? How Big Tech Chooses Extraction Over Available Innovation

The Marion Watch Perspective: THE DATA CENTER EXPANSION NO ONE IS FULLY EXPLAINING — AND WHY IT MATTERS FOR OHIO The global shift toward an artificial intelligence-driven economy has triggered an extraordinary expansion in digital infrastructure — most visibly in the form of hyperscale data centers spreading rapidly across the American heartland. Marion Watch’s position […]

DRAINING AMERICA? How the Data Center Boom Is Accelerating the Collapse of U.S. Aquifers

Ohio now hosts over 200 data centers. Columbus is the fastest-growing data center market in the United States. Overview MarionWatch’s most recent investigation, “America’s Vanishing Water,” documented the accelerating collapse of the nation’s principal aquifer systems — the Ogallala, the Central Valley, the Colorado River Basin, and the Atlantic Coastal Plain. That report established what […]

WATER & AGRICULTURE AMERICA’S VANISHING WATER AQUIFERS

Beneath the fields that feed the nation, two vast aquifers are running dry.The science is clear, the economics are brutal, and the clock is ticking. The water that sustains America’s agricultural heartland did not fall from the sky last season. It seeped underground over thousands to millions of years, pooling in vast geological formations called […]