Anything built by the big boys, Meta, Google, Microsoft, etc. will use closed loop cooling designs with dry coolers. They will use about as much water as a golf course for 2 months when they start up and fill their systems. A full system flush later on is also a rare event. Then they pay the electric utility to build them dedicated power plants.
If utility bills go up after a DC it’s because your utilities and government are corrupt and refuse to use the hundreds of millions of dollars they receive to upgrade their systems.
So no, the US already has over 4500 data centers now, more than any other country on the face of the planet. If the world wants more data centers, build them somewhere else, any place but here.
A preponderance of the homes which have been hosting “no data centers” yard signs have also sprouted extreme leftist Democrat yard signs in the runup to the state primaries.
0% of the signs with no data center signs have Republican candidate signs whether RINO or MAGA.
Nuff said.
what I don’t understand is why they don’t build data centers on federal lands in deserts that lie above brackish aquifers. desalination of brackish water is pretty cheap. further most of these deserts get roughly 9 inches of rain annually. that nine inches could be harvested on the same land that has the solar panels. a square mile of solar panels yields roughly 600 megawatts of power currently but those numbers will improve in the coming years.