{"id":21229,"date":"2025-12-16T13:37:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/16\/water-levels-across-the-great-lakes-are-falling-just-as-us-data-centers-move-in\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T13:37:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:37:18","slug":"water-levels-across-the-great-lakes-are-falling-just-as-us-data-centers-move-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/16\/water-levels-across-the-great-lakes-are-falling-just-as-us-data-centers-move-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Water levels across the Great Lakes are falling \u2013 just as US data centers move in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Region struggling with drought now threatened by energy-hungry facilities \u2013 but some residents are fighting back<\/p>\n<p>The sign outside Tom Hermes\u2019s farmyard in Perkins Township in Ohio, a short drive south of the shores of Lake Erie, proudly claims that his family have farmed the land here since 1900. Today, he raises 130 head of cattle and grows corn, wheat, grass and soybeans on 1,200 acres of land.<\/p>\n<p>For his family, his animals and wider business, water is life.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/dec\/16\/great-lakes-us-data-centers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/0f4433bcd148e0731a293f414b3a24dad9a160bf\/209_0_606_485\/master\/606.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=221b6343311494e851f4a8c47c6ee40b\" title=\"Water levels across the Great Lakes are falling \u2013 just as US data centers move in\" \/>Region struggling with drought now threatened by energy-hungry facilities \u2013 but some residents are fighting back<br \/>\nThe sign outside Tom Hermes\u2019s farmyard in Perkins Township in Ohio, a short drive south of the shores of Lake Erie, proudly claims that his family have farmed the land here since 1900. Today, he raises 130 head of cattle and grows corn, wheat, grass and soybeans on 1,200 acres of land.<br \/>\nFor his family, his animals and wider business, water is life. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Region struggling with drought now threatened by energy-hungry facilities \u2013 but some residents are fighting back The sign outside Tom Hermes\u2019s farmyard in Perkins Township in Ohio, a short drive south of the shores of Lake Erie, proudly claims that his family have farmed the land here since 1900. Today, he raises 130 head of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/16\/water-levels-across-the-great-lakes-are-falling-just-as-us-data-centers-move-in\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Water levels across the Great Lakes are falling \u2013 just as US data centers move in<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21229"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}