meanwhile, the actual problem with water demand: stress on, again, *local* *potable* water systems is 100% solvable with regulations.

will regulating evaporative cooling out of existence in areas where it's not appropriate offset the water use with electricity use? yes it will. so regulate that.

finally, not all data centers even default to evaporative cooling *now* when this is just blowing up in public awareness. please for the love of god do some research.