Comment by mleonhard

Is any datacenter's water use significant compared to other industrial installations? According to that article, all datacenters in North Holland use 550 Ml/yr. North Holland has 2.95M residents [0], who use 129 l/person-day [1], 47 Kl/person-year, 139,000 Ml/year for the whole region. So the data centers use an estimated 0.4% of the region's water. Data centers use about 3% of the Netherlands' electricity.

Why do you think this is a lot of water? What are the alternatives to pulling from the local water utility and are those alternatives preferable?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Holland

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in...

[2] https://www.dutchdatacenters.nl/en/statistics-2/