There are at least five ways that data centers suck up the water supplies that we don’t actually have right now. - With water-cooled chillers, these cavernous constructions keep overloaded wires from melting down. - With enormous water-driven swamp coolers, these absurdly huge hothouses keep the air inside those enormous buildings below…
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FORT GARLAND Throughout the history of the San Luis Valley, things have moved quickly. Floods have shifted whole towns. Brutal winters turned populations into seasonal nomads.
In one sense, Kevin Kropp’s fruit trees are doing everything they’re supposed to this summer. Their leaves are green and healthy. Sprinklers hum and workers fertilize and spray for disease.
On a dewy Saturday morning, a wiry 13-year-old who’s not much bigger than the golf bag he’ll lug across the manicured landscape arrives early at Aurora’s CommonGround Golf Course to learn the art of…
The last redbud sapling disappeared just before noon. A man eased the seedling into the back seat of his Subaru, closed the door carefully and waved goodbye.
The sprawling lawn in front of the state Capitol is baking under the sun and the shimmering summer heat.The grass is blotchy brown with a few weeds seizing the moment to invade the non-native turf on…
Jessica Killin is no stranger to big risks. After all, she used to jump out of planes for the U.S. Army.
When I wrote my column last Sunday, I asked readers to help me understand why Jared Polis had taken a once-semi-promising political career and — whoosh — basically set it on fire. Was it a case of…