No, there is not plenty of water for data centers

And, yes, we should worry about it, along with the facilities' power use

📈 Data CENTER Dump 📊

A satellite view of Mesa, Arizona, showing a handful of the 91 energy- and water-intensive data centers in the greater Phoenix metro area. Source: Google Earth.

When I first read a recent headline in Matthew Yglesias’s Slow Boring newsletter, I assumed it was a sort of joke to rope me into reading. “There’s plenty of water for data…