Ann Vaughan

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The MeatEater Podcast · Ep. 902: The Pros, Cons, and Complications of Data Centers · 13 Jul 2026 podcast

So, we're already using a lot of our fresh water for irrigated crops.

And so, corn, like three trillion gallons a year.

California almonds, 1.2 to 1.8 trillion gallons a year.

Seriously.

You're not an almond lover?

Yeah.

We don't need to pick on them because there's plenty of examples.

Dairy farming.

Dairy farming is enormously water consumptive.

And about an estimated like 93% of the water footprint of dairy farming is actually just to feed cows or basically to raise crops for animal feed.

Yeah, I, you know, I think it's, it's, it's way up there.

I guess it like the statistic that I came to arm with is that a gallon of milk, and this is from the U S area industries, like sustainability reports, a gallon of milk takes 144 gallons of water to produce.

Really?

And a pound of cheese takes 164 gallons of water to produce.

I think that we have normalized.

We love our farms.

We love our food.

We love corn fields blowing in the breeze.

And a lot of people will say, and I had a farmer say this to me who sold a very large chunk of land to Meta.

I hear over and over, nobody can eat a data center.

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