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.
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