Comment by mathiaspoint

My parent's hometown blocked data center construction because of concerns about traffic and water consumption.

This is the mid Atlantic where the wet bulb and dry bulb temperature are always very close so the water would be useless for cooling. And of course there are few things that add less traffic than empty buildings full of computers.

Also a lot of the non-AI stuff is still air cooled. In fact I know people at a couple large public tech companies spinning up AI hardware and even for that they're going with air cooling because it's all their OPs people are familiar with.

I wish people were more precise with communicating the actual problem.