A hyperscale (cloud) datacenter uses about 2000 m3 of water per day [1]. That sounds like a lot, without any frame of reference. But if we compare with the aver

A hyperscale (cloud) datacenter uses about 2000 m3 of water per day [1]. That sounds like a lot, without any frame of reference. But if we compare with the average golf course in the South-West, that uses 459 acre-feet of water per year ([2], Table 2) which comes to 1550 m3 of water per day. There are more than 200 golf courses in the South West. You can draw your own conclusions. [1] https://dgtlinfra.com/data-center-water-usage/ https://dgtlinfra.com/data-center-water-usage/ [2]https://usgatero.msu.edu/v11/216335.pdf https://usgatero.msu.edu/v11/216335.pdf