In order, I'd be worried about the electricity, the traffic, the policing (because it's suddenly filled with dense high-value equipment), the noise of the cooling systems, the impact on local scenic views, and the likelihood of enough protestors (for all the obvious reasons) to be directly disruptive to locals even when well-behaved.
But water? Nope.
The Tesla Gigafactory in Brandenburg originally called for 1.8 million cubic meters or 475 million gallons, which would have been half of all 108 the data centres in Arizona combined. Of course, then demand for Teslas in Germany went down, so they never actually used that much, but that's the scale difference here: one single (big) factory is on par with half an entire state's worth of DCs.
Imagine if literally all 108 of the data centres in Arizona moved next door to you at the same time.
*All* 108, *combined*, use the water of 3000 people.
3000 people is less than half of Cambridge Science Park: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Cambridge+Science+Park/@52...
In order, I'd be worried about the electricity, the traffic, the policing (because it's suddenly filled with dense high-value equipment), the noise of the cooling systems, the impact on local scenic views, and the likelihood of enough protestors (for all the obvious reasons) to be directly disruptive to locals even when well-behaved.
But water? Nope.
The Tesla Gigafactory in Brandenburg originally called for 1.8 million cubic meters or 475 million gallons, which would have been half of all 108 the data centres in Arizona combined. Of course, then demand for Teslas in Germany went down, so they never actually used that much, but that's the scale difference here: one single (big) factory is on par with half an entire state's worth of DCs.