Ann Vaughan

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

So let's put kind of water, broadly speaking, in perspective so that this is kind of a rough exercise.

And again, there are many resources that folks who have helped me think through this are drawing from.

Okay, but...

So we don't get alarmed by contextless numbers.

You hear something like billions of gallons of water being used a year, and that sounds astonishingly large.

But in fact, big industries, including agriculture, are using trillions of gallons a year.

Yeah.

Okay.

So let's start big and we'll kind of telescope, you know, out and then go, go in a little bit.

So there's like, you know, if you, maybe you can keep a number in your head of like freshwater consumption in the U S in the like 30 trillion gallons a year range.

And.

Yeah.

Um, and you know, and, and, um, 30 trillion gallons a year and, um, single crops in the United States use as much as 3 trillion gallons a year.

Okay.

So corn or alfalfa, like for, for livestock, um, and a third of the corn, uh,

harvest is going to ethanol.

So, these are just single crops.

And so, agriculture, irrigation for agriculture does consume something like, you know, like 70% of our fresh water.

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