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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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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.