On one hand, at an industrial scale that isn't that much water: e.g. my local utility that serves 20,535 customer locations across 75 square miles provides abou

On one hand, at an industrial scale that isn't that much water: e.g. my local utility that serves 20,535 customer locations across 75 square miles provides about 2.2 billion gallons of water per year. On the other hand, it's a fair amount of water for cooling... wag numbers ignoring the environmental conditions of their location (and water hardness) would have me guessing their load would be on the order 100 - 300 megawatts to need that much make-up water. Could be off by an order of magnitude, but clearly it's a lot of heat regardless.