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by teuobk 241 days ago
Golf courses in the USA used about 2.1 billion gallons of water per day circa 2004 [1]. In other words, the annual usage of Amazon's datacenters per the article, 7.7 billion gallons, is less than the amount of water used on just American golf courses in four days.

[1] https://www.usga.org/content/dam/usga/pdf/Water%20Resource%2...