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marcyb5stlast Monday at 4:50 PM1 replyview on HN

Yeah, but that is for everything. YouTube, Amazon itself, AWS, Azure, GCP, ... not just AI stuff. I mean, it is still a lot of water, but the numbers are not that easy to calculate IMHO


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seg_lollast Monday at 5:51 PM

Many if not most data centers are pulling water out of the ground that will never be replaced. The problem is multidimensional, not just volume.