She ran the sensor data through a model she’d trained on power and thermal drift. The pattern held: localized heating consistent with sub-surface fluid movement, not surface weather. The timestamps correlated with output from a nearby low-capacity pumping station, one that had quietly increased throughput over the past year. The pumps were used by agribusiness and small towns that relied on groundwater; a change in pumping patterns could indeed shift subsurface flows and cause slow, distributed heating as pressures and flow rates altered.
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