IF YOU LIVED ON A WELL IN A RURAL AREA & DATA CENTERS WERE GETTING ALLOWANCES OF 9 TIMES YOUR WATER ALLOWANCE-—YOU WOULD HAVE A DIFFERENT THOUGHT & PICTURE.
IF YOU WERE RETIRED & HAD ABOUT 99% OF YOUR NET WORTH IN YOUR PROPERTY VALUE & IT WOULD PLUMMET TO ZERO WITHOUT WATER-—YOU MIGHT HAVE ANOTHER THOUGHT.
CREATE POWER??? TO SOME EXTENT, YES-—
CREATE WATER????? IN AREAS ALREADY ARID & CALLED “DESERTS”-—NOT SO MUCH. THE MORE ARID -—THE MORE A TARGET OF DATA CENTERS.
IF COUNTY CANNOT COLLECT TAXES FOR THE USUAL VALUE OF PROPERTY-—THEN ENTIRE COUNTY BUDGET IS IN SHAMBLES.
CANNOT SELL THE REAL ESTATE WITHOUT WELL PRODUCING WATER
REAL ESTATE VALUES PLUMMET
MORTGAGE COMPANIES WILL CEASE LOANING PURCHASE MONEY
SCHOOLS WILL FAIL
BUSINESSES WILL FAIL
R E AGENTS WILL NOT HAVE INCOMES
WHERE WILL THE INFLUX OF THOUSANDS OF DATA CENTER WORKERS LIVE??? NO WATER MEANS NO WATER-—FOR ANYONE.
EXACTLY HOW MANY “DATA CENTERS” ARE NEEDED, ANYWAY???
MY VALLEY COMMUNITY IS ABOUT 5500 -—MOSTLY RETIRED.
SUDDENLY-—2,000 DATA CENTER EMPLOYEES ARE NEEDED???
WE ARE RETIRED -—BUT NOT SEEKING A JOB WE ARE NOT QUALIFIED FOR & THOSE EMPLOYEES WILL ALSO NOT HAVE WATER AT THEIR HOMES....IF THEY HAVE CASH TO BUY, BECAUSE MONEY LENDERS WILL BALK.
THERE ARE FAR MORE ATTACHED PROBLEMS THAN BENEFITS FROM DATA CENTERS.
The presumption here is that the water is for cooling. One can transmit that heat to the atmosphere or to the earth. The former takes refrigeration (electricity) or evaporation (water loss). Putting the heat into the earth takes drilling one well for the heat sinking and another for the draw. No net water use. Obviously one can combine the two to chill the water yet further than geothermal temperature.
Of course, I don't know how much heat sinking we're talking about here but if it were me, I'd be looking for real estate in Antarctica.