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brooksttoday at 1:31 PM1 replyview on HN

It was never that dramatic, and it’s declining day by day. It’s a panic over a real but small problem.

Order of magnitude more water is lost from wasted irrigation (e.g. during rain, of fallow fields, sprayed into windy air, etc) than data centers.


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SXXtoday at 1:36 PM

Problem with data centers is that companies want to build them near densely populated areas that already have problems with water supply and high utility bills.

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