alt Hacker News>>Data-centre protests aren't about water
>I suspect the people facing rising electricity cost and air-noise pollution beg to differ.
Pulling myself together here to be as polite as possible but could you perhaps read the quoted text and your own post again and try and square that circle?
Otherwise, are you perhaps in the running for some kind of internet non sequitur award I am unaware of? I would vote for your comment if you simply make me aware of how to do so.
Residential users' water bills aren't (currently) affected by datacenter-related demand, unlike their power bills which are.
The resource contention for water is between datacenters and agribusiness (or other industrial users), not residential users.
Instead of being sarcastic to GP's post, we could try to find a succinct explanation of how water rights are owned/sold/taxed in the US. This seems to be a patchwork quilt by state, county, seniority and related legislation. But anyway, datacenter usage of water isn't impacting residential users' water bills.