By that argument water use is never a bad thing since all water comes back as rain. The problem is that data centers need to use clean water, which has to be tr

By that argument water use is never a bad thing since all water comes back as rain. The problem is that data centers need to use clean water, which has to be treated. On a local scale, a large data center could starve a community of potable water, even if the state-wide water use is very small.