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Data centers consume massive amounts of water – companies rarely tell public exactly how much https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/082325_data_center_water_op/data-centers-consume-massive-amounts-water-8211-companies-rarely-tell-public-exactly-how-much/
As construction and proposed construction of data centers around the world increases, those computers require not just electricity and land, but also a significant amount of water - but technology companies don’t always reveal how much water their data centers use.
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I'm glad people are waking up to #Water use, but demonising data centers is largely sanctimony.
"actual water consumed by data centers is ~ 66 million gallons per day. By 2028, that’s estimated to rise by two to four times.
… it's not particularly large when compared to other large-scale industrial uses … ~ 6% of the water used by US golf courses, and it’s [~ 3% of the daily use for cotton in 2023]”
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-does-the-us-use-water
US should do a lot more in *reusing* water.