I Was Wrong About Data Center Water Consumption

16 dskrvk 3 9/1/2025, 7:29:58 PM construction-physics.com ↗

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schiffern · 11m ago
In the comments someone mentioned 400 golf courses in Arizona, and it got me to wondering...

In the US, golf courses consumed 1.68 million acre-feet of water in 2022[0] (down 29% from 2006, they are pleased to report), which works out to 1,499 million gallons per day.

So golf courses consume three times as much water as AI. Were's the proportional level of outrage over that issue, I wonder?

[0] https://gcmonline.com/course/environment/news/water-manageme...

randomjoe2 · 2m ago
Oops! I helped spread misinformation to a huge number of people, shoot!
mannyv · 1h ago
Oops!