Nice perspective. So even if all these data centers were built in the desert, it's entirely within the realm of possibility to transport 17B gallons of water, u

Nice perspective. So even if all these data centers were built in the desert, it's entirely within the realm of possibility to transport 17B gallons of water, unlike the 43 trillion used for irrigation. Some back-of-the-napkin math: - A truck holds 5000 gallons - It would take 3.5 million trips to transport that much - If each trip was 500 miles roundtrip, that's about 2 billion miles - Trucks travel 140 billion miles each year in the US. That would add less than 2% to the total miles - The trucking industry is about $1 trillion in revenue per year. So 2% of that is $20 billion total to transport 17 billion gallons. Or around $1 per gallon.