Water is not guzzled. The water is used as a medium for heat exchange and still exists after absorbing the heat generated by the AI computer
BUT IS NO LONGER EXISTING FOR THE LOCAL RESIDENTS.
YOU CAN MAKE POWER.
YOU CANNOT “MAKE WATER”
Stop stating facts. You'll confuse the knee jerk posters.
It’s not pumped back into the water lines. A lot of it uses open cooling and will evaporate after absorbing the heat. The rest could be pumped back into the original source, but that still requires the municipal water system to have the capacity.
There isn’t really a good reason to tap into drinking water supplies anyway for this sort of project, they could go right to the source or develop their own water sources.
As it is local governments are basically just sending their residents the bill for the data centers, which is the root of the problem. Water and electricity shortages are just symptoms of the problem.