Americans across multiple states are being urged to conserve water as drought conditions intensify, reservoirs shrink, and utilities issue increasingly urgent warnings. At the same time, a different kind of consumer is quietly demanding unprecedented...
  • kunaltyagi@programming.dev
    7·
    2 months ago

    Majority of water use in US is for agriculture and meat production. A significant portion of the agriculture is for producing animal feed like Alfa Alfa in water stressed regions.

    Data centers use water but they are a symptom of the broken water allocation in USA

  • Aniki@feddit.org
    5·
    2 months ago

    the site has surprisingly no charts despite its name “barchart.com”, unfortunately

    it would be good to have estimates for various sectors to check their electricity / water consumption and compare it towards each other, i.e. how much energy does airplanes need? how much water do nuclear reactors need? how much does agriculture need? etc

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
    51·
    2 months ago

    Ai Data Centers’

    No. Water-cooled Data Centers did this.

    Call out the transgressors for their transgression and stop the dilution and transferrence of the real problem.

    Cool your shit with air.