Nvidia claims hotter-running liquid cooling cuts on-site data center water use, but power-grid demands keep footprints high

I'm pretty confused about how articles like this still get published. Like yes, data center companies report the amount of water used in the data centers themselves. Water used in the power plants supplying them can be hundreds of miles away and hard to attribute. The main way data centers use water is in the normal power plants supplying their electricity offsite. This way of writing about how the "full water cost is much larger" is a weird framing twist on the fact that data centers use way less water per unit energy than the power plants use to create those units of energy. The less water data centers use, the more ominous this other number looks.