What kind of cooling design is continuously in need of large amounts of fresh water? So they use evaporative cooling instead of a closed loop with heat exchanger to the atmosphere?

Grok answered that question:

The surging water use is due to the rapid expansion of AI data centers, reliance on water-intensive evaporative cooling, and Texas’s challenging climate. While closed-loop liquid cooling systems exist, most facilities still use evaporative methods, which lose water to the atmosphere. Transitioning to sustainable cooling is underway but lags behind the industry’s growth, exacerbating water stress in drought-prone Texas.

In an ideal world we would make their water so expensive that it makes business sense to invest in sealed systems with only minimal losses for maintenance. Fat chance.

Texas AI centers guzzle 463 million gallons, now residents are asked to cut back on showers

Now we know why Elon favors Indians.

There's such a glaringly simple answer to the problem, turn their water off. They do not have the right to impact a community. Period.

Looks like the ‘unintended consequences’ are coming to fruition.

Don't build big ass data centers in hot ass climates. Take advantage of altitude or higher latitudes.

I know latency would be an issue but that's not that hard to work around.