Wall Street veteran: the world's biggest data center consumes water like just 3 golf courses
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-09-06
Adam Parker, founder of Trivariate Research and a 25+ year Wall Street veteran, offered a counterintuitive benchmark on the Founders & Friends podcast: "The biggest data center in the world would be like just 3 golf courses in terms of the amount of water it consumes."
The remark pushes back on the common narrative that AI data centers consume alarming amounts of water, providing a different sense of scale for the ongoing debate.
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