• InexplicableLunchFiend [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    6 days ago

    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.

    That’s 208 per minute at MINIMUM per data center