minus-squareTolookah@discuss.tchncs.detoTechnology@beehaw.org•When it comes to total water use, AI data centers are a drop in the bucketlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·edit-22 days agoAdd to that: In the U.S. in 2020, an average of 11,857 gallons of water was used per megawatt-hour of electricity produced. https://www.publicpower.org/periodical/article/how-much-water-our-electricity-uses For Amazon, “data suggests that in 2023, colocation data centers used by AWS alone used more than 7.8 million megawatt hours of electricity, around a fifth of the company’s total power.” https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/aws-has-more-than-900-data-centers-report/ 92 more billion gallons of water at 7.8 million megawatt hours. (That’s about a fifth of the company’s total power, so it’s more like 450 billion gallons) And that’s just Amazon. linkfedilink
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In the U.S. in 2020, an average of 11,857 gallons of water was used per megawatt-hour of electricity produced.
https://www.publicpower.org/periodical/article/how-much-water-our-electricity-uses
For Amazon, “data suggests that in 2023, colocation data centers used by AWS alone used more than 7.8 million megawatt hours of electricity, around a fifth of the company’s total power.” https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/aws-has-more-than-900-data-centers-report/
92 more billion gallons of water at 7.8 million megawatt hours. (That’s about a fifth of the company’s total power, so it’s more like 450 billion gallons)
And that’s just Amazon.