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by krasin 988 days ago
1) It should be possible to build a mostly passive dry cooling tower. It will cost more to build, but the cloud companies are not particularly struggling.

2) Electricity is much more portable than water. Droughts are regional and there's little that can be done about it (other than avoiding waste), but electricity can be and often is transferred from out of state. And we do have a lot of solar+wind power nowadays, should be a good fit for cooling.