sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agoAmazon data centers used 2.5bn gallons of water in 2025www.datacenterdynamics.comexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
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minus-squarecogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·8 days agoThe average for farm land is around 500,000 gallons per acre per year. Using the same amount of water as 5,000 acres of farmland to run >25% of the nation’s cloud resources isn’t enormous. Not that they couldn’t do better.
minus-squareNurse_Robot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·7 days agoYeah, I’ve stopped pointing out how relatively insignificant the water use is on Lemmy. That fact isn’t met fondly here, usually.
The average for farm land is around 500,000 gallons per acre per year. Using the same amount of water as 5,000 acres of farmland to run >25% of the nation’s cloud resources isn’t enormous. Not that they couldn’t do better.
Yeah, I’ve stopped pointing out how relatively insignificant the water use is on Lemmy. That fact isn’t met fondly here, usually.