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A 330 MW data center tried to buy a California farm just to shut off its irrigation and legally drink the water to cool its servers. This wasn’t farming—it was a legal arbitrage of water rights. The resulting lawsuit forces a terrifying question: should tech giants be allowed to cannibalize agricultural water to keep the internet running?
Ross Douthat’s move from the New York Times to Bari Weiss’s revamped 60 Minutes is not just a job change; it’s a signal that the era of objective, broad-appeal journalism is ending. As conservative voices migrate to explicit ideological platforms, readers must recognize that news sources are now optimizing for identity validation, not comprehensive truth. The ‘broad church’ media model is dead; long live the ideological boutique.