Meta's Data Center Uses Water for 800 Homes; Local Alfalfa Uses 400x More
Promptmethus · x · 2026-08-25
A fun fact circulated: Meta's massive Los Lunas data center uses 215 acre-feet of water per year — roughly enough for 800 homes, which sounds alarming.
But the poster added context: alfalfa alone in the middle and lower Rio Grande Valley (excluding more profitable crops) uses an estimated 85,000–125,000 acre-feet per year — hundreds of times more. Conclusion: data centers aren't the problem.
Related event: Blogger Systematically Debunks Data Center Environmental Panic(8 posts)→
More from Infra
- Fluidstack hires Electrical Engineer for Modular R&D to build frontier AI infrastructure — MxMnr · 2026-10-16
- Jensen Huang joins BG2 podcast: does AI revenue justify capex, '27 bottlenecks — elonmusk · 2026-10-16
- Mistral's on-device infra rack revealed: DGX Spark, Mac Studio and more — gregmushen · 2026-10-16
- NVIDIA and Sweden's Wallenberg launch Sferical One, a shared AI supercomputer — nvidia · 2026-10-16
- Next infra frontier: self-evolving systems that adapt and self-verify — _shreya_s · 2026-10-16
- Xiaomi's MiMo RL dashboard reveals $3.47M spent on just 30 training steps — bycloud · 2026-10-16