Most of a data center’s water is consumed at the power plant that supplies it, but financiers screen mainly for the water used within the data center.
Meta, one of the few operators that publishes an estimate, reported that indirect water use was more than 20 times greater than direct use.
https://trellis.net/article/investors-data-centers-water-use/
Gerry McGovern
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