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I wondered exactly that when I see how water usage seems to have pierced the public consciousness.
Feels like the perfect red herring to blunt opposition to these when people find out that they use a fraction of the water that is being claimed by some.
But I now see data centers lumped in with golf courses, almonds, and "too much housing" in discussions involving normies when it comes to water usage...
I think it's more that some datacenters were using significant amounts water in places where there already wasn't enough to go around
The truth is datacenters don't even always use water cooling, and even when they do it's not a ridiculous amount of water
But people latched onto the water thing, even if it's not true, it's spiritually true. They are using up insane amounts of resources... Just not water specifically
Nah wasn't long ago they'd tell you all about water usage for almond milk...while also completely forgetting that dairy cows also need water (and significantly more of it per gallon).
Although I would gladly concede that we shouldn't be milking almonds when soy and pea consume so much less water and are much more nutritionally dense.
I cannot tell you how many omnivores have set about lecturing ME on water usage related to almonds when they found out I was vegetarian. At least one time was while they were literally eating a cheeseburger.
For one thing, my household doesn't use all that much almond milk, but I guess many omnivores assume that vegetarians or vegans eat nothing but salad and tofu and guzzle almond milk.
Anyway, being a vegetarian has placed me in the center of some rather very bizarre conversations from people that are completely ignorant about not only nutrition (I mean how many fucking times can one hear the "but where do you get your protein?" question), but about their own diet's implications...specifically to things like fuel and water usage and the pollutants it creates...
Maybe I'll get worried about almond milk's water consumption if meat and dairy becomes a scarce thing. Until then, I'm not really taking the bait on what I consider is a lot of concern-trolling, especially while meat and dairy production doesn't show any signs of slowing down.