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FOI documents: data center water consumption in Virginia, home to the world's largest cluster of data centers, hit 1.85B+ gallons in 2023, up from 1.13B in 2019

Usage has increased by almost two-thirds since 2019 in the world's largest concentration of computing infrastructure

Financial Times Camilla Hodgson

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  • @andrewsonearth Andrew Ahern on x
    A lot of attention has been rightly focused on the emissions & energy requirements for AI & data centers. But it only gets worse. This infrastructure uses huge amounts of water as well. Data centers in Virginia have increased water use by 2/3s since 2019 https://www.ft.com/... [i…