I wrote the article. Water use is used really ambiguously by people talking about data centers and LLMs in general. To get the numbers I just took the estimated

I wrote the article. Water use is used really ambiguously by people talking about data centers and LLMs in general. To get the numbers I just took the estimated water used per kWh (https://www.sunbirddcim.com/glossary/water-usage-effectiveness-wue#:~:text=WUE%20is%20the%20ratio%20between,consumption%20of%20the%20IT%20equipment.&text=The%20lower%20a%20data%20center's,of%201.8L%20per%201kWh https://www.sunbirddcim.com/glossary/water-usage-effectivene....) and multiplied it by the number of kWh used in data centers for different tasks