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Amazon data centers used 2.5bn gallons of water in 2025
(www.datacenterdynamics.com)
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this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2026
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Imagine trying to compare AI to food production.
Do you really need someone to explain why they're different, and why one might be worth it while the other isn't?
The article is about AWS data centers not AI compute specifically. That’s the cloud infrastructure for a lot of the web. The comparison to agriculture is about scale, not the importance of the Internet vs. agriculture. Using 0.011% of the water as the farms in Kansas to power 25% of the Internet is nothing.