How is it consuming so much water? It is probably used for cooling the data centers, but why could it not be reused or even used as heating network?
Most power generation usually uses steam as a way of converting heat into work. So that power consumption is still a bigger issue than the data center heat management.
Wasted water as in readily usable water, if they build a plant somewhere it will cut down from the natural sources and create their own thermal energy that the world has to also dispel.
Which leads to the bigger issue, all of this contributes to global warming. Along with forcing rationing of water, like dude just live one year in Cali to get a sense of water fears. It’s a downward spiral, often called the singularity.
We are creating destruction of worlds for the sake of what? AI waifus? Not having to solve your own issues? To not think? We fought for the freedom to not be brainless slaves, and we hand back the reigns to the elite above us. The internet was already a beast untamed and unleashed upon children, please do not support this one.
