you are saying that a chart of real wages going up over time supports your argument that real wages are not going up over time?

neither datacenters nor water bottlers are super heavy users. they're each about 0.04% of national freshwater use.

actually it's still not a lot. in 2021 the us consumed 15.7 billion gallons of bottled water * 12¢ ~= $2 billion dollars, about two weeks revenue for the industry.

for comparison, that rate would make a hamburger cost $72 more.

? Yes, every bottle of water would get a few cents more expensive. I'm not sure what point you're making.

($2 billion a year)

at $0.12 per gallon, *every datacenter in the US combined* would pay about $2 billion, or about three days of Microsoft's revenue. it's not really a lot of water.

every datacenter in the US combined would pay about $9 billion a year at that rate. that's about two weeks of revenue for Microsoft alone. nothing would change because datacenters don't use much water at all.

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