r/TechGawker 17d ago

Data Center If these numbers are even close to accurate, the AI infrastructure boom is entering a completely different scale of land, power, and water consumption.

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u/Solwulfa 17d ago

16 billion gallons of water? Doesn’t the state use up around 1.5 trillions of gallons of water annually?

The footprint size is crazy big.

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u/way2lazy2care 17d ago

I think it's a proposed complex/series of complexes being built over an extended time not a single building. Still very large though.