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It's a fairly shallow info pop piece that feels more like a commercial. The only point with regards to this discussion (and assuming it is not all just a lie, which I did not investigate, so it might just be): You can have a closed system that does not "use up" water.

You can have a closed system that does not "use up" water.

But those "a million gallons of water" (or whatever it consumes/uses) have to come from somewhere, and cannot go somewhere else at the same time as it goes to the data center, so from the perspective of the Aragon farmers, isn't the water "used up"?

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