u/DayTrader_Dav

The moment before the WGM blast are pretty telling. Employees smelled propylene and even heard a loud hissing sound coming from the building. The leak was reported to the supervisor and plant manager, but there wasn't a full evacuation. Another employee later entered the building, and that's when everything went horribly wrong.

What also stood out to me was how many safety issues the CBS identified afterward, problems with the gas detection system, manual shutoffs, emergency procedures, and employee training.

And this wasn't WGM's first propylene incident either. There had been a similar explosion in 2008 that injured two workers and damaged building.

It makes you wonder how much attention should be given to WGM's own safety practices and emergency response when looking at the full story. The explosion didn't just happen out of nowhere, there were warnings along the way.

OCP and U.S. farm cooperative CHS will set up a phosphate fertilizer plant in Louisiana worth $450 million, with annual capacity of over 1 million tons for the U.S. market. In June 2026 Washington temporarily suspended countervailing duties on Moroccan phosphate fertilizer. After about five years out of that market, initial shipments have arrived at the Port of New Orleans. American farmers still import around 40 percent of the phosphate fertilizer they use.

Territorial peaks of Moroccan dynasties, from 789 to now: Idrisid, Almoravid, Almohad, Marinid, Wattasid, Saadian, Alaouite.

The Alaouites have reigned since the 17th century and still do. Morocco is one of the oldest monarchies still standing and it never became a republic.

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Morocco is expanding water infrastructure in the south. A large-capacity desalination plant is under study between Tiznit and Chtouka-Aït Baha, in the Souss-Massa region.

The investment is about 15 billion DH. Planned capacity is 350 million m³ a year, 250 million for irrigation and 100 million for drinking water, powered by renewables. Tiznit, Chtouka-Aït Baha and Taroudant would benefit.

Technical, environmental and land studies are already underway. This follows the Chtouka plant and shows Morocco acting on drought to keep farms and cities standing.

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Every time this comes up the pitch seems to be “we need more data centers because China.”

Maybe. But if I lived next to one, China probably wouldn’t be the first thing I cared about. I’d care whether my electricity bill goes up, how much water it uses and whether my town actually gets anything out of it.

That’s why the Ohio project is interesting to me. The grid upgrades are supposed to be paid for by the project, they’re using a recirculating cooling setup, and there are actual local-job/community commitments attached.

That seems like a much better model.

If AI infrastructure is really this strategically important, the goal shouldn’t just be “build more data centers.”

It should be “build them so the people living beside them don’t hate them.”

Curious whether people here think that’s realistic.

If you could recommend one movie, what would it be? Any genre will do. I'm always looking for great movies to add on my watchlist.

This is exactly why these negotiations matter. It’s not simply about some conferences trying to protect their advantages; it’s about addressing concerns that could affect the entire system. College sports is too complicated for a rushed solution. The SEC and Big Ten aren’t just asking for special treatment... they’re trying to make sure the rules actually work for everyone instead of locking the entire system into rules that may not work for years to come.