I think it’s a whole lot more than that. Try hundreds of thousands or millions of gallons per day per data center
Data centers consume significant amounts of water for cooling, with typical facilities using roughly 300,000 to 500,000 gallons per day, while large hyperscale sites can exceed 1 to 5 million gallons daily. In the U.S., data centers are estimated to consume over 400 million gallons of water per day.
Reminder that llm data centres waste dozens of gallons of potable water every minute of every day
But if we don’t waste millions of gallons of drinking water every day… the Chinese might do it!!
Yeah but that’s alarmist propaganda. It’s actually the least of your concerns.
dozens?
Every minute - it’s literally one sentence, we are so cooked.
I think it’s a whole lot more than that. Try hundreds of thousands or millions of gallons per day per data center
That’s 208 per minute at MINIMUM per data center
If only you’d put this effort into your original comment.
200 does fit pretty decently with dozens per minute. Dozens, plural, you know?
200 per minute in the smallest data center, but if you’re talking all data centers then it’s in the millions per minute
200 is “hundreds”. Hundreds is an order of magnitude greater than “dozens”. Everything is composed of dozens of things if you divide it by 12.
Alright, I still feel like saying dozens work, but agree to disagree