[ipython]

Not to mention water for cooling. Large data centers can use 1 million+ gallons per day.

[xnx]

1 million gallons is approximately 0.5 seconds of flow of the Columbia river.

[wiredpancake]

It means nothing when most water is recycled anyways. It's not like the GPUs actually drink the stuff, the water just connects to heatsinks and is cycled around.

[xnx]

That's true for closed loop systems, but some data enters use evaporative cooling because it is more energy efficient.