Skeptics of the proposed hyperscale data center in Box Elder County are sweating about a lot more than its energy demands and potential toll on water supplies.
You are right and to me that’s the part that makes the least sense. The crisis isnt the “dont wash your car” kinda crisis, its the “murder people to keep them from drilling a well on their own property because it might draw on the same aquifer as you” kind of crisis. It is a literal desert, and the NSA data center in utah already consumes something like half a million gallons of water a day.
You are right and to me that’s the part that makes the least sense. The crisis isnt the “dont wash your car” kinda crisis, its the “murder people to keep them from drilling a well on their own property because it might draw on the same aquifer as you” kind of crisis. It is a literal desert, and the NSA data center in utah already consumes something like half a million gallons of water a day.