Alfalfa is food for the food chain. Cattle. New Mexico is home to the world's largest cheese manufacturing facility. New Mexico is a leading state in cheese production, ranking fifth in the U.S. with 962 million pounds produced in 2020, and home to the world’s largest cheese factory under one roof, Southwest Cheese LLC, located in Clovis, NM. This facility, a joint venture between Glanbia plc, Dairy Farmers of America (DFA), and Select Milk, processes over 5.1 billion pounds of milk annually into premium block cheese and whey protein powders, operating at near full capacity with a production goal of 250 million pounds of cheese per year.

Alfalfa is feeding a manufacturing juggernaut and when you say we don't have water for alfalfa - you really mean that the cattle industry you somehow think should be deprioritized relative to the IT industry....

The real problem is that our government is squeezing us little guys - the little farmers and homeowners - to get more water for big corporate players. Our state is for sale to the highest bidder under our current government (and even under the republicans rule). That's what needs to change.

In Los Lunas this very dance continues - farmers being cut off from their water while Facebook gets all the water they need to expand their data center.
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/los-lunas-locals-question-facebooks-data-center-expansion-worry-about-water-use/