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Comment by jandrewrogers

> Each year, it will use millions of gallons of water to keep the chips from overheating.

Growing corn on that same 1200 acres would require on the order of a billion gallons of water. People have no sense of just how much water agriculture consumes.

In all probability, putting a data center on farm land is greatly reducing water consumption.

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