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1. daedrdev · 1789677377 · focus · HN ↗

   AI does not use much water. If you believe it does, like this article does, you have fallen for propaganda and lies, ironic in a post calling everyone using AI stupid.

   The main cause of water fear mongering is that one woman’s well was dirty during construction of a data center. First construction is not the center running, and having lived on a well they get dirty for all kinds of reasons.

   1. lowbloodsugar · 1789678660 · focus · HN ↗

      The major hyperscalers report water use: Google consumed 10.9 billion gallons in 2025, up 34%, versus Amazon's disclosed 2.5 billion.

      1. daedrdev · 1789680212 · focus · HN ↗

         The Us uses 320 billion gallons a day. Google thus used 0.01% of total US water.

         Or about 0.6% of the water used to grow almonds

         1. phyzome · 1789680850 · focus · HN ↗

            Now compare to the planned datacenters.

            1. daedrdev · 1789686606 · focus · HN ↗

               US data centers are going to 3x this year. Still not a lot.

               1. phyzome · 1789687532 · focus · HN ↗

                  3x the resource usage? Or the raw count?

                  1. daedrdev · 1789762369 · focus · HN ↗

                     3x the compute

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