# How’s Carney doing, Canada?

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [May 4, 2025, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-s-carney-doing-canada/1017850 "2025-05-04T03:54:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 11, 2026, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-s-carney-doing-canada/1017850/712 "2026-06-11T18:10:19Z")

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Lots of educated evaluations on actual water use and consequences (and some weird hijacks) in this thread:

> [@Why can't data centers recycle their water?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-data-centers-recycle-their-water/1030751):
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> Data centers use a lot of water (up to 5 million gallons daily) for cooling. Why can’t they recycle the water? Once it heats up, can they pump it underground (in pipes) to cool it, and then recirculate it? Here’s an article describing how most data centers are being built in drought areas: [Majority of US’s new AI datacenters to be built on drought-hit land](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/08/datacenter-ai-drought-water)

For water/cooling use for Datacenters, for any not already reading said thread.

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