Yes, people got mad at me for pointing out the land use for data centers is also minuscule compared to any suburban development.

That doesn’t make it any less of a concern, but one of the major issues of data centers is that they are bypassing costs by unloading them onto average citizens. They don’t want to pay taxes and higher costs for energy and water so they offload electric costs onto everyone else and then abuse the water supply to avoid making a closed loop system.

I keep quoting the exact stat wrong, but most of the world’s freshwater goes into agriculture and farming.