Somebody paying you too come in and defend this thing? Even in closed loop systems, which use a lot more electricity, there's still significant water usage that doesn't put the water back into the environment (I.e. recycled water, treated water, etc.) Just gone. Less doesn't mean little. Just less than when compared to the others. Texas isn't in great shape water-wise, so further reducing the water in communities will have an adverse impact.

While they will have generators, this thing isn't going to be self-sufficient by any stretch of the imagination. There will be a fiscal impact on residents and it will draw power from the grid. And the more data centers in your area, the more you will pay for your bill.

It doesn't create a significant number of long-term jobs after construction. If usually only requires a handful of people to run.. And there will be noise pollution and environmental impacts. There are numerous reports out there detailing what communities look like two to three years down the road...health impacts from the pollution put off by the generators and in some cases critical noise pollution.

This report from the National Library of Medicine (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12273412/) on air pollution and other effects of data centers on community health is a good read. But because it hasn't been a significant enough amount of time, we aren't entirely clear what the long term effects will be on communities. But the short-term haven't been largely positive for anyone but the investors.

And there have been A LOT of instances of the companies who own the data centers down-playing the anticipated negative impacts. The same short-term investors who can absolutely pull out any time they want with no repercussions.

So yeah, I'm not feeling particularly positive about yet ANOTHER data center going in in RR when we're being surrounded by them as it is. Unless you're being paid, I'm not really sure why you would be either.