Just looked up where this is: https://www.google.com/maps/place/The+Dalles+Google+Data+Center/@45.6319089,-121.2036031,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x54961ebdb45

Just looked up where this is: https://www.google.com/maps/place/The+Dalles+Google+Data+Center/@45.6319089,-121.2036031,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x54961ebdb45cdec5:0x4bde13efb5371001!8m2!3d45.6319052!4d-121.2010282 https://www.google.com/maps/place/The+Dalles+Google+Data+Cen... That's right on a big river. Why are they using aquifers at all over there? Edit: they are using the river. But why is this such a big issue? They evaporate some of it and dump the rest back in presumably?