[HN Gopher] Arizona city rejects data center after AI lobbying push
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       Arizona city rejects data center after AI lobbying push
        
       Author : ohjeez
       Score  : 6 points
       Date   : 2025-12-13 22:04 UTC (56 minutes ago)
        
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       | karakoram wrote:
       | I did not know Arizona was a contender for AI Data Centers. Don't
       | they have water and drought issues already?
        
         | toomuchtodo wrote:
         | Indeed, the Salt River project nuclear generator uses reclaimed
         | sewage water for cooling.
        
         | ben_w wrote:
         | Probably, given it's famously a desert, but the water issues
         | for DCs are a meme rather than the actual limiting factor even
         | in Arizona's case.
         | 
         | Last time this came up in an HN discussion, I looked at the
         | sources and noticed that all 108 DCs in Arizona combined
         | currently use about as much water as about 3k residents:
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45952965
         | 
         | How big is the rejected new DC compared to all the existing
         | ones combined? I could believe just about anything in the
         | current bubble, but that's where we're at for the existing
         | ones.
        
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