New Delhi, June 12 -- CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas. The city's wells are running dry. Its two main reservoirs sit at critically low levels. Residents have been living under outdoor watering bans since December 2024, forbidden from hosing down their driveways or washing their cars. And somewhere on a 75-acre spread just outside the city's northwest limits, a Bitcoin mine owned by companies tied to Tether, the world's largest stablecoin issuer, is pulling millions of gallons of water from the municipal system every month.

How many millions, exactly? Corpus Christi has decided the public doesn't need to know.

Facing a public information request from journalists, the City of Corpus Christi has moved to block disclosure of the mine's 2026 water usa...