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https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2024/09/12/massive-microsoft-data-center-will-require-huge-amounts-of-power-water/74778971007/ my friend Lindsay did a big long piece for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about the impact of local data center development and I'm so proud of her!! Regional coverage is very important for this topic!!
@ingrid I always wonder how easy it would be to, like, cool the evaporated water and recycle it. Or if the evaporated water from a natural source like a river might soon rejoin the local ecosystem albeit at a higher temperature. It's not "used" in the same way gasoline is used, but maybe still in a concerning way that needs to be balanced against drinking/irrigation water and the ecosystem