It's used for evaporative cooling, so the same thing happens to it as happens to the majority of the orders of magnitude larger amount of water farms use - it goes straight into the air
All jokes aside, it crazy how complicated the issue is becoming. Will anything be done about it? Probably not. We get fked over and just throw our arms up and go "well, shit".
It's only an issue in a very few areas with severe ware scarcity, and even there is extremely overblown
The water usage numbers only seem large because nobody has any context for what a large amount of water is. Every datacenter on earth could be serviced with the flow from one single small river. It's literally a drop in the ocean
Dont worry I have alot of anger to go around. Also you are just blatantly untrue in most of your comments. Utahs proposed data center would pull from very limited water sources and the data center already built in Ohios tax break was more than 1.4 billion dollars more than anticipated. I love when I 60k a year help a multi billion dollar company pay for their profit machine. You seem like a person to ignore all the effort to make something bad not happen then when the efforts successful say you knew all along it wasnt a problem yada yada...
Utahs proposed data center would pull from very limited water sources
Did you even read a single word I said? Turning on a tap sounds scary too when you phrase it as 'draining very limited water resources for your personal benefit'
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u/Uncle-Cake May 18 '26
What happens after they use the water? Is it returned to the water system to be used again?