Comment by traderj0e
7 hours ago
It doesn't come out a little hotter, it gets evaporated in cooling towers. Same result as any other water usage. Cooling towers can't use seawater either. Most datacenters are in places where fresh water is abundant anyway, but some are not.
Anyway agricultural water usage is way worse in California.
Agriculture is used to grow _food_.
Some of it, but then some AI is used to cure cancer.
But it doesn't have to happen in California.