The thing I most want to know is why they insist on building facilities that have to use gargantuan amounts of water to keep their equipment cool in hot and dry places.

Are they just stupid? Wouldn’t even the average five-year-old be able to figure out that the obvious places to build such facilities are cool, wet ones?

Because those areas cost more to build in due to construction costs and because those areas are already more developed. If they can come here and get some sucker to give them the water, thats’s on them.