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by nozzlegear 9 days ago
> So the AWS data centers make up roughly an additional 0.01% of daily water usage. Why is this worth a bloomberg article?

I live somewhere that's had a lot of interest from companies wanting to put up new data centers (northwest Iowa, southwest Minnesota – open farmland basically). The water usage thing is easily the top concern/grievance that people cite in their arguments against data centers.