Brian Potter
Structural engineer and writer, author of the Construction Physics newsletter, where he takes apart how large physical things — buildings, ships, semiconductor fabs, aeroplanes — actually get made, and why the cost of making them moves the way it does.
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Their words thenTaking this into account, actual water consumed by data centers is around 66 million gallons per day.
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Our readingNo longer believes this.
Their wordsBut I didn’t read the report closely enough, and apparently this 579 million gallons a day was in fact consumptive use.
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