Data centers are good but they should have to come with investment in the local power grid.
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> It turns out, it is very difficult to calculate water consumption and use, and plenty of people have agendas to spin when crunching numbers. The only water that practically ‘gets used’ is water which is evaporated, but there’s another question of who is doing the evaporating.
It’s literally called makeup rate and is trivially easy for a utility plant to track. And it’s ~2% for evaporative cooling unless there are sizable leaks.
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Data centers are good but they should have to come with investment in the local power grid.
> It turns out, it is very difficult to calculate water consumption and use, and plenty of people have agendas to spin when crunching numbers. The only water that practically ‘gets used’ is water which is evaporated, but there’s another question of who is doing the evaporating.
It’s literally called makeup rate and is trivially easy for a utility plant to track. And it’s ~2% for evaporative cooling unless there are sizable leaks.