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[–] 1 point 4 months ago (3 children)

if its a ai datacenter that guzzles water like it has no limits,am planting lots of bamboo

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    I'd actually be curious as to the share of resources each of these aspects of modern internet architecture use.

    I'm just just Google sans AI sucks up some serious water and electricity, I just have no idea how it compares.

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    There is currently no public breakdown of U.S. data center water consumption by AI vs non-AI workloads. However, AI appears to account for a minority of total data center compute and electricity demand today, suggesting its share of water consumption is also likely to be a minority, though the exact proportion is unknown.

    However I can give some examples of cloud services:

    AWS / Amazon data centers used roughly 2.5 billion gallons globally in 2025

    https://www.latitudemedia.com/news/amazon-finally-reports-its-annual-water-use-at-data-centers

    Google data centers used roughly 7.7 billion gallons globally in 2024

    https://www.latitudemedia.com/news/data-center-water-use-black-box-google-trying-to-change

    All U.S. data centers: about 17.4 billion gallons per year direct water consumption in 2023, projected to reach 38–73 billion gallons per year by 2028. That includes cloud, AI, enterprise, colocation, storage, etc.

    https://mostpolicyinitiative.org/science-note/data-center-water-use

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