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Azrael@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

There is currently no public breakdown of U.S. data center water consumption by AI versus non-AI workloads. However, AI appears to account for a minority of total data center compute and electricity demand today, suggesting its share of water consumption is also likely to be a minority, though the exact proportion is unknown.

However I can give some examples of cloud services:

AWS / Amazon data centers used roughly 2.5 billion gallons globally in 2025

latitudemedia.com/…/amazon-finally-reports-its-an…

Google data centers used roughly 7.7 billion gallons globally in 2024

latitudemedia.com/…/data-center-water-use-black-b…

All U.S. data centers: about 17.4 billion gallons/year direct water consumption in 2023, projected to reach 38–73 billion gallons/year by 2028. That includes cloud, AI, enterprise, colocation, storage, etc.

mostpolicyinitiative.org/…/data-center-water-use

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