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The only way I can imagine a data center “consuming” water is by evaporative cooling. Querétaro is dry country, where this should work well, so that makes sense.
Most data centers evaporative cooling from what I understand, and according to This
And seeing as hyperscale data centers usually use between 20-50 megawatts per data center, and there's three of them in Colon, that's like at least 240 million gallons of water a year.
Yikes.