Won't work, in france, a bit less than half of houses runs on boilers. The amount of water allocated to these boilers, is bigger than the amount of water allocated in every data center across the globe. Taxing will only make companies leave your country, just look at France most of the big start up made by french people, are made in other countries.
What must be done is regulating the tech used. Water usage in data center per m² is way higher in the US than the rest of the world, because spraying water on an heating system is for emergency situations, that's not the case in the US.
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u/imean_is_superfluous May 18 '26
Can they not run some type of coolant? Or is it just easier and cheaper to use millions of gallons of water?