US data centers triple water use to 17B gallons amid AI boom
kuuuzya · hn · 2026-08-25
A new report reveals that annual water consumption by US data centers has tripled to 17 billion gallons over the last three years, driven largely by the explosive growth of AI and cloud computing demands.
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