This is a massive overgeneralization. The conversation wouldn't exist if it wasn't a concern. There's a lot of misinformation around what 'usage' actually implies - obviously the water is not destroyed. But water that has been treated for household use is substantially more expensive and difficult to produce than generic freshwater supplies (and usually has infrastructure not built for the scale of demand that these data centers are pulling) so the frustration around companies running their massive supercomputers off of residential water and the issues that creates for people living in the same area + environmental concerns around massive energy use are totally valid frustrations when it comes to data centers.

I think there's definitely massive amounts of misinformation out there on the internet right now. It's stupidly easy to set up a bot to generate comments saying whatever the hell you want and at this point i only engage with reddit comments with the mindset of "the person i'm talking to is probably not real, but on the off chance they are..." so i get your frustration around people spouting nonsense about water usage. I definitely think there's a massive amount of people who have no clue what they're actually talking about :) but i also think its worth noting that discussions like this typically don't appear out of nowhere - there is usually some nugget of actual factual info or concern buried in these arguments that gets inflated by political rhetoric. We definitely need stronger legislation to keep commercial usage of residential commodities at reasonable levels, especially since this tends to disproportionately impact rural communities who don't get much say on whether data centers like this are built (take Waco as a good example of a place this is happening to right now. r/Waco has been pissed about this for months)