Data center used 30 million gallons of water without initially paying

Can AI save us from the AI industry’s endless thirst for water? Outlook not so good.

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[DrewW]

Where's that commenter that so helpfully told me data centers use less water than I do?

A high pressure shower head uses about three gallons a minute. So if you’ve spent the past twenty years in the shower you have used as much water as a portion of constructing a data center.

 

[DrewW]

Headline is incredibly misleading; that water usage was for the actual construction of the data center, not its operation.

I would love to see you operate an unbuilt data center. It seems like they all have to be built to operate.