AI did not just demand more electricity — it demanded water. By 2025, U.S. data centres, increasingly expanded for AI workloads, were consuming nearly one trillion litres of water a year, much of it used in cooling systems that shed heat by evaporating water i – Space Daily

U.S. data centers expanded for artificial intelligence workloads are consuming nearly one trillion liters of water annually as of 2025, according to reporting by Space Daily. The majority of this water consumption is attributed to cooling systems that use evaporative methods to dissipate heat generated by the facilities.

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