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Big tech's new datacentres will take water from the driest areas
- exiguus 1y ago> Amazon’s three proposed new datacentres in the Aragon region of northern Spain – each next to an existing Amazon datacentre – are licensed to use an estimated 755,720 cubic metres of water a year, roughly enough to irrigate 233 hectares (576 acres) of corn, one of the region’s main crops. This was the example that really got me thinking.