When it comes to total water use, AI data centers are a drop in the bucket

Ars Technica
By Kyle OrlandJun 12, 2026, 12:51 pm88 ptsTrending
If you hang out in any even vaguely AI-skeptical parts of the Internet, you've probably stumbled on plenty of memes and posts premised on data centers' insatiable thirst for water to power evaporative cooling. But a new report from Amazon highlights just how little water all these AI data centers are using in…

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