IREN tells Childress its cooling water is trucked in, not drawn locally
Local coverage from the Panhandle recorded IREN's answer to the question that follows every West Texas data center: the Horizon halls run a closed loop, water is delivered by truck from outside the county, and annual top-ups are characterised as comparable to a few households.
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