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If the end result is a lot of freshwater lost, it's still very bad.

• Dylan16807 3y ago
  The end result is 1/20th as much lost. So if that's still "very bad" then the other plan is "catastrophic". It's a very big improvement.
  • nyrikki 3y ago
    The problem is not just with the volume lost water but that they also dump concentrated brine water into the sewer system and most of these companies never actually came though with their promises to upgrade municipal treatment facilities. Millions of gallons of consumption and brine sewage is not a trivial problem for places that are rural.
    • Dylan16807 3y ago
      That sounds to me like the utility is charging them wrong. When I buy water it has sewer charges by default, which means if I concentrated that to seawater level they'd be getting 100x or 200x payments to process it, and even higher for brine. It's possible to meter the sewer separately, but there are extra charges for water with too much biochemical oxygen demand or suspended solids. Throw an extreme salinity charge on there so they can pay for full treatment and then some. Is there a reason to have datacenters directly fund facility upgrades?