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Where does the water go?
Evaporated for cooling I'm guessing
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/techland/the-hidden-bottleneck-of-ai-data-centers-water
There's closed loop and immersion (paraphrasing the article), so it's just a guess.
Not only that, datacenters pollute water with pfas (forever chemicals), making it unsafe to drink.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/04/pfas-pollution-data-centers-ai
Confession: I haven't read the OP but a lot of data center studies include the water associated with power generation, which is usually a similar order of magnitude to the cooling water loss.
The servers are thirsty.
Me too, but I pee the water. You know?
Have you considered not peeing, so that hustlebros can set up a Python script to feed popular art tags into an image generator, so they can have a passive income through Patreon?
cool the data centers with piss, ingenious!
and then they can make gun powder with the leftovers so they can fight their war within.