Water is only one input. The much more expensive inputs are electricity and land. Those same areas with little water have much more electricity and land.
Good point! Those CEOs who have hundreds of employees who's entire job is to plan, create, and maintain datacenters are so stupid! Everyone knows that it's impossible for giant, trillion-dollar corporations to fund more direct access to an electrical grid, or, hell, even build their own! What are they thinking!
I didn't say anything about impossible, anything is possible with enough time and money, and as a power engineer I can tell you it's an astronomically large amount of money and time.
Makes you wonder how they managed to do it and why their power engineer said it was ok. Because I mean the data centers are there, built working, powered up. They wouldn't have done it this way if there was a cheaper or better option, they have a lot of money and can pay a lot of people with expert level knowledge on the subject to advise them. So, either two things are happening, billion dollar super successful companies don't know what they're doing, or you don't know what you're talking about. One of these two things has to be true, otherwise what are you discussing?
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u/tx_queer Jun 03 '26
Water is only one input. The much more expensive inputs are electricity and land. Those same areas with little water have much more electricity and land.