Amazon’s data centers used 2.5 billion gallons of water last year

Just aft Seattle enacted a one-year data halfway moratorium that immoderate of Amazon's ain employees pushed for, Amazon shared however overmuch h2o its information centers use, reportedly for the archetypal time. With concerns astir water depletion and vigor use a absorption of caller AI information halfway operation debates, Amazon says its planetary information halfway operations consumed 2.5 cardinal gallons of h2o successful 2025 astatine a complaint of 0.12 liters per kilowatt-hour of electricity, dropping by 2 percent from its 2024 full adjacent arsenic it expanded operations.

Amazon besides claims it's utilizing h2o much efficiently than immoderate Big Tech rivals - this graphic successful Amazon's study points to M …

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