$87k household. So that's 6 median incomes of water being used up by that datacenter. Put that way it doesn't sound bad, especially when you glance at the electric bill.

Also when it evaporates instead of going to the sewer that drops the price in half.

Edit: Oops I got that mixed up and was treating it like a per-faucet cost. So actually it's one full household income converted into water to handle the entire facility.

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bix6 an hour ago | parent [-]

Yeah I’m sure someone on median income feels the same

	▲	Dylan16807 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Probably, yeah. Do you think people look at big facilities and calculate that they're spending whatever times the medium wage on a crucial service and get mad about it? Converting things into median wages is a way to put them into scale. They spent this many wages for construction, they spend this many on supplies, they sell this many in product, they hire this many people to work there. If anyone thinks its bad for anything a company buys to exceed a median wage, that's a very silly expectation and I wonder where they got it.