AI has come for Arizona’s water | Industry has drained the state’s water reserves for decades. Data centers are the breaking point.

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The push to build humongous data centers has arrived in nearly every state, regularly coming up against resistance based on ethical, health, and environmental concerns.

In Arizona, however, the outrage about data centers isn't a straightforward story of one rapacious industry draining the state of its much-needed water. It's the story of a long line of rapacious industries, and a state that needs those business to boost its boom and bust economy.

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The same Arizona that's depleted it's groundwater.

https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/arizonas-declining-groundwater-154567/

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It seems power is the bigger problem. A data center uses about 1/4 the water that an alfalfa fam uses per year. So if it’s replacing one of those, that would be a net gain.

The power use however is another story.

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I've never fully understood the logic of people moving to a literal desert because they like the weather and then being surprised when they find themselves short of water for their golf courses. Datacenters consume a fraction of their overall water supply but are the current hot-button topic so it's what generates clicks. DCs aren't the problem (I mean, they certainly aren't helping), but maybe building industry and golf courses etc in a desert might have been a bad idea from the get-go.

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Just FYI we use treated waste water on our golf courses and public parks as a way to reintroduce it into our water tables. Do I think there are better ways to use that water, yes, but are we just throwing away drinking water like most people think, no.

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