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Their wordsSo AI consumes approximately 0.04% of America’s freshwater if you include onsite and offsite use, and only 0.008% if you include just the water in data centers.
Our reading
A data centre earns its county far more tax revenue per gallon of water than a golf course does.
Their wordsData centers are so much more efficient with their water that they generate 50x as much tax revenue per unit of water used than golf courses in the county:
Their wordsIt’s very common that I’m told that data centers poison the water around them.