Yeah, I think there’s a common outside view problem where statistics like “state S has X litres of water available every day” and “data centres are consuming Y litres every day” are combined in some manner that is basically “X/Y = 0.02 therefore data centres only take 2 percent of daily water supply, so its fine!”
Whereas it seems quite obvious that if a single new building in an electrical grid consumed 2 percent of the whole grid’s output, we’d need to reconfigure the whole grid to meet their needs. The same is true of water and gas.
Yeah, I think there’s a common outside view problem where statistics like “state S has X litres of water available every day” and “data centres are consuming Y litres every day” are combined in some manner that is basically “X/Y = 0.02 therefore data centres only take 2 percent of daily water supply, so its fine!”
Whereas it seems quite obvious that if a single new building in an electrical grid consumed 2 percent of the whole grid’s output, we’d need to reconfigure the whole grid to meet their needs. The same is true of water and gas.