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twiclo • yesterday at 3:33 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

If we weren't building anything here it would still be a farm using a lot of water. Correct.


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stonogo • yesterday at 6:18 PM

Except, of course, that farms use unprocessed water for irrigation and datacenters use treated water for cooling. If the project has its own onsite water treatment, and water rights to the aquifer, then that might be fine, but the majority of these projects expect nearby municipal resources at a scale no farm ever has.