Can you believe one industry leader uses "golf course equivalents" to describe data center water use?
What most people don’t realize is that an average golf course in the southwest can consume around 150 million gallons of fresh water per year.
Does that make data centers look better? No. And it makes golf courses look worse!
See the data yourself: https://aidatacentermap.org/

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