Amazon Says Its Data Centers Use 2.5B Gallons of Water
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#2https://archive.ph/47ra0
Edit: seems even this is just the summary first two paragraphs.
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#3Roughly 736* of US households assuming it's 2.5B per year, 100 gal per person. I can't read the article because I got what it feels like 17 popups that nearly gave me epilepsy.
edit: corrected to 736, its per year.
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#42.5 billion gallons per year.
The US uses about 2 billion gallons of water per day on golf courses.
Re: Amazon Says Its Data Centers Use 2.5B Gallons of Water
#5It's not in the title, but this is 2.5 billion gallons per year.
For context, the city of London uses about 2.6 billion liters, or about 680 million gallons, per day.
So that's about four days of London water usage per year, give or take -- or just over 1% of London's water usage.
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#6> 2.5 billion gallons of water worldwide last year, or about 5% of the amount metro Seattle consumes annually
That doesn't seem like that much, really. The Seattle metro area isn't huge; that consumption is only 0.7% of New York's, and Amazon runs the largest network of data centers in the world.
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#72.5 billion gallons per year. The US uses about 2 billion gallons of water per day on golf courses.
Citation?
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#8What is it for data centers to use water, precisely? To take cool water in and run it through pipes to produce warm water, then send it to rivers?
Re: Amazon Says Its Data Centers Use 2.5B Gallons of Water
#9What is it for data centers to use water, precisely? To take cool water in and run it through pipes to produce warm water, then send it to rivers?
evaporative cooling, which saves on energy costs
Re: Amazon Says Its Data Centers Use 2.5B Gallons of Water
#102.5 billion gallons per year. The US uses about 2 billion gallons of water per day on golf courses.
The more important question in both cases is where the water comes from.