We don’t know how much water data centers use. We just know it’s a lot

  • Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    For California at least, residential use is about 10% of all water usage iirc. So if data centers are dwarfed by that…not a big concern in the big picture.

    The issue I guess is when data center usage sucks up all the local supply. State and region wide they don’t use much but they do use a lot in one small area.