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vel0city • today at 2:04 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Households with yards will have far more volatile water usage spikes related to seasonal rainfalls than a fully built out datacenter will.

A recent datacenter proposal near me was going to be built on a ~35 acre site. The entire site projected to use ~300 gallons of water a day when fully operational. That's including toilets, irrigation, etc. A household on a quarter acre lot in that area often uses 10-15,000 gallons of water in a month. 35 acres cut into quarter-acre-ish lots means a bit under 140 households. We'll cut it down and say 100 after streets and what not. That lot being a neighborhood like the others nearby would probably use at least a million gallons of water in a month, about 33,300+ gallons a day.


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n4r9 • today at 2:54 PM

> A typical data center uses 300,000 gallons of water each day (equivalent to the demands of about 1,000 households), but large data centers can use an estimated 5 million gallons of water each day

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/ai-data-centers-and-water...

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