Andy Masley
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first heard Dec 2025
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And obviously AI has grown a lot since then.
So I can kind of start with like a 2023 background and say my best guess for like data center water use, like how much water data centers were using in America specifically in 2023 was something like eight times the water that my hometown used.
I'm from a town of about 15,000 people.
And so like AI altogether was effectively like
building eight new towns like that across the country.
And like, obviously, that's not nothing.
That's like a lot from the perspective of an individual.
But it's kind of something that I would expect the water system to be able to absorb and to manage pretty well.
Yeah.
I mean, the reason we don't have more updated numbers is that AI is just very fast moving and it's hard to understand like exactly how much water AI companies are using because they're not always totally transparent.
This number comes from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
They have a really great general report.
on data center energy and water usage.
I think that's probably the best single document if you want to start doing deep dives on this yourself.
They're just like broadly respected.
This is the most comprehensive general report that we have.
So a lot of my writing has been based on that.
But yeah, because 2023 is the last year we have good data and there's a lot that's changed since then.
I'm starting with that, but flagging that obviously like a lot's grown since then.
But we also need to make some reasonable guesses about how much the growth has happened.
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