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Amazon data centers used 2.5bn gallons of water in 2025 (www.datacenterdynamics.com)
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[–] geekwithsoul@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

While Google and Meta provide water usage data for individual facilities, Amazon did not disclose site-specific information.

More than a little skeptical of Amazon's data, as without facility by facility numbers, it's impossible to get any sort of sanity check on how accurate their numbers are.