#water-consumption

#water-consumption

The 2022 memo, viewed by the Guardian as well as the investigative non-profit SourceMaterial, found that Amazon used 105 billion gallons of water in 2021, as much as 958,000 US households or a "city bigger than San Francisco," as the document put it. However, in the run-up to a November 2022 PR campaign called "Water Positive," Amazon only disclosed 7.7 billion gallons of water use per year - an enormous discrepancy.

Data centers are rapidly expanding to enhance computing capabilities, yet they consume significant electricity and water, thereby raising concerns over competition with human water needs.

AI data centers' carbon emissions are expected to surge 11-fold by 2030, with predictions that these centers will consume 612 terawatt-hours of electricity, driving a 3.4% increase in global carbon emissions.