Comment by ben_w

2 days ago

Probably, given it's famously a desert, but the water issues for DCs are a meme rather than the actual limiting factor even in Arizona's case.

Last time this came up in an HN discussion, I looked at the sources and noticed that all 108 DCs in Arizona combined currently use about as much water as about 3k residents: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45952965

How big is the rejected new DC compared to all the existing ones combined? I could believe just about anything in the current bubble, but that's where we're at for the existing ones.