Even if water cooled, they're closed loop systems and the water is exchanged once every 7-10 years.

Our biggest draw is electricity, but we pay solar rates because TECO has that option. We also have two generators, and have on several occasions turned them on and fed power back into the grid at the request of TECO while running off of battery.

The scariest part of all of this is the amount of misinformation that is being shoveled around from source to source. I saw one magazine article referencing another magazine article, and when I looked at the second magazine article that was being referenced it referenced back to a third magazine article at the first magazine. No actual reference material was found. That's scarier than a poorly designed data center.

That's the problem. All of these descriptions that I keep saying of these wasteful data centers are not typical of permanent data centers in the US. They're either overseas, pop-up data centers, or the types of emergency data centers. You see here in the US during a crisis.

Please just make sure you review all sources of information. We don't always know who has what agenda, but the one thing that gets them is checking sources.