General Discussion

I believe the principal source of water for the Reno/Sparks area is the Truckee River, which is Tahoe's only outlet. The Truckee's rate of flow is determined by the dam at Tahoe City, where the lake flows into the river.

As the need for water rises to meet the insatiable thirst of these data centers, I imagine that the technocrats who own them will exert increasing pressure to open up the dam, thus lowering the lake level.

And what happens when the lake's water level drops below the lake's natural rim, and water stops flowing over the dam altogether? Well, rather than let the Truckee run dry, I imagine that it might be deemed necessary to blast away some rock at the lake's outlet to allow the lake to drain even more.

It's a seemingly unthinkable scenario, but it seems that as the concentration of wealth into fewer and fewer hands continues to accelerate, nothing is impossible. Would the likes of Musk, or Theil, or Andreesen really be unwilling to do it?