UK data centers would use just 0.04% of the country’s daily water treatment volume
AndyMasley · x · 2026-07-23
The post argues that the UK treats about 15.3 billion liters of water per day, and that all data centers combined would account for only 0.04% of that total.
It is a compact factual rebuttal to the claim that data centers are a major water-use burden, at least in the UK context.
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