Tehran, Iran, has run out of water

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50. I have probably been in 200 data centers from 1970 to 2005, some of the largest in the world at the time

They all had HVAC that was air exchange. 100% of them. Perhaps the mega centers are using a different system today. My experience is 20 years old now.

If they are using some kind of water exchange, then the municipalities should require them to connect to community resources so that the excess heat can go to industrial purposes, home heating, or energy reclamation.

In my state, there are over 200 applications for these big data centers. Our legislature passed laws that give sales tax benefits basically forever, property tax abatement, discounted electric rates, and also makes the citizens (who get absolutely no value from any of this) to pay 20% of the cost of the new generation and distribution facilities.

The Republicans in charge seem very proud of themselves for attracting data centers that will be huge buildings that employ practically nobody and pay far less in taxes than they cost the community.

And none of these applications are under the big names (Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Meta etc). They all are separate companies that will make big profits from all these tax advantages.