Comment by simianwords

> These centers guzzle water and power at a rate most small municipal grids aren't scoped for

Source?

Here's why I think this is wrong

"A typical (average) data center on-site water use (~9k gal/day) is roughly 1/14th of an average golf course’s irrigation (~130k gal/day).

On-site data center freshwater: ~50 million gal/day Golf course irrigation: ~2.08 billion gal/day"

On both local and global levels - golf uses significantly more water than data centres.