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▲ Lanktion an hour ago

It is consumed because they evaporate it away and remove it from the local environment.

They easily could build near heating system or cooling the water down in another probably big facility close by and send it to the city

▲fastball an hour ago | parent [-]

Evaporated water stays in the water cycle though. It comes back down as rain, and returns to the water sources that were depleted (assuming these data centers are generally not using underground aquifers, which I think is true).

▲phatfish 5 minutes ago | parent [-]

You can't control the water cycle over a datacenter and its water source, it is a global system.