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this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2026
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Per day? Per year? Per second?
Sounds like a lot of water, but you can't just give an amount of water when you're talking about the rate of something.
Yeah and the USA uses 322 billion gallons a day, so this number, which is about a day’s worth, really changes its meaning depending on the timescale.
Per year
https://www.barchart.com/story/news/2339834/ai-data-centers-water-consumption-breaks-264-billion-gallons-in-2025-as-devastating-drought-hits-nearly-63-of-u-s
No time frame was given, so we can only assume it’s for the lifetime of the entire universe.