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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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