Somewhere, some day, a billionaire will see this and tell someone to make this happen around his private doomsday bunker/spa retreat to weather out the totally normal summer temperatures to come. Just until the Mars colony is up and running, of course.

I love how they snuck "commercial" into the post, too. Like, obviously it has to be commercialized, can't fathom having any poor peoples' homes saved, after all.

Technical limitations? Bah! That's a typical poor people argument, they always lack vision!

I agree with the overall sentiment in the post, but it's also undeniable that we need to invest on disaster preparedness, given that extreme weather events are more and more common now.

Please implement my slop image as policy, my corporate sycophant agrees it will work

but... but... Think of all the data centers you could power with all that water!

(/s)

Doesn't matter if the emissions are stopped now, still need damage mitigation because the planet is already hot (we should also reduce emissions of course)

Also the whole megacorps pollution thing is about as problematic as the personal carbon footprint idea. If you think the companies are causing all the pollution, it's easier to keep consuming the fuel and goods that those companies oil and energy produces. Like for example if you live somewhere in the western world and think that one of the world's largest polluters, China Coal, isn't affected by your consumption habits, unfortunately you're pretty likely wrong.

and the idea will get cut as soon as someone says it means higher taxes

The Botanic Garden in Australia's Blue Mountains has just finished installing one of these around the perimeter. All going well will it will protect it against the next big fire. Added bonus of watering the trees when required.

Having pipes and reservoirs full of water just because maybe it could possibly help some things and people not burn on the off chance that there happens to be a fire in that area would be an insane waste of a resource data centers desperately need right now.

Uh they have many many water systems in Kelowna already.

Commercial watering systems exist already and have been used to fight fires already.

If anyone wants local Kelowna news, search for castanet and if you can get past the extremely ridiculous amateur design, you can see news directly from that area

Also lake okanagan is huge, the cost of water is nothing, the equipment to use it is a different story

better keep the fire away from the naquadria deposits.