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Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
Add to that:
In the U.S. in 2020, an average of 11,857 gallons of water was used per megawatt-hour of electricity produced.
publicpower.org/…/how-much-water-our-electricity-…
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.” datacenterdynamics.com/…/aws-has-more-than-900-da…
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 me like 450 billion gallons)
And that’s just Amazon.