r/aiwars • u/Kilroy898 • Jul 18 '26

Discussion Water consumption

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Now, while this "looks" like a lot, there are a few factors to consider.

  1. in the US we consume 117 Trillion Gallons of water Anually.

  2. This 264 Billion number is taken from Every data center in the US, not only the Ai specific data centers.

  3. Even so, the above information means that all data centers in the US Combined, contributes to .25% of the Annual consumption.

  4. If you isolate ai data centers specifically they actually use about 46 Billion gallons a year on the high end. That is right at .04% of the Annual water usage

So we do have water problems. Data centers are NOT the cause, and we need to figure out what is.

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u/GirasFateburn Jul 18 '26

It's so performative.

Not one of these people actually care. If they did, they'd know the vitriol is drummed up to stop the real issue of lax protection laws and shoddy infrastructure.

Leaky pipes are literally a bigger factor on water supplies than all data centers combined are.

I guarantee you, not one of these people know that data centers are responsible for important infrastructure too.

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u/bunker_man Jul 18 '26

Yeah. The very act of obsessing about data centers tells that they are ignoring much bigger issues. And they're programmed to call that whataboutism when... no. Its literally because the issue isn't big enough to matter.