Laut Amazon verbrauchen seine Rechenzentren nur 0,075 % des Wassers, das Amerikaner für die Bewässerung ihrer Rasen und Gärten verbrauchen
https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/servers/amazon-says-its-data-centers-consume-only-0-075-percent-of-the-water-americans-use-for-watering-their-lawns-and-gardens-company-also-boasts-of-its-improvements-in-water-efficiency
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I wonder if they asked AI to come up with that number?
It would be great to not waste water on lawn as well.
Oh cool. Let me just take everything Amazon has to say at face value.
What are the numbers for the area around the data centers?
My lawn is dead. It’s been dead for several years.
That’s still a shit ton of water.
Lawns are at least green space AND generates oxygen.
Let’s ban those too!
And they’re still missing the issue. The issue isn’t that they’re using water, it’s that their pumping groundwater in arid climates specifically for evaporative cooling. Watering a lawn in those climates isn’t great but at least some of that water heads back to the aquifer. Evaporative cooling does not do that. It’s 100% into the atmosphere. The good news is it’s not destroyed. The bad news is you water just became someone else’s water far, far away and you’re not getting it back.
So we’re all over here tearing our lawns out so that Amazon can build data centers?
1) Picking just one industry player and just their current volumes is deliberately misleading.
2) This number does not seem to include the extra water usage from extra electricity production (which currently uses about 40% of the water used in the US.)
So as much as 255,000 people watering their lawn. Practically nothing, right? 🤦🏻♂️
My lawn is watered by the rain, it dies and comes back instantly
Grass prevents erosion, gardens produce food, (even if it’s flowers, bees, butterflies, hummingbirds) and plants in general are part of the ecosystem.
I would actually love a comparison with golf courses
Man I really don’t want to fucking stan for Amazon… But AWS for better or worse is a huge fucking deal. If it went away a good chunk of the internet goes away and like it would still need to go somewhere.
Also also people get data centers don’t consume water for power right? The water doesn’t vanish (some does evaporate) and as far as I know it doesn’t get poluted or anything just goes back into the water supply though water treatment process.
We need to stop watering lawns.
Worked for a Microsoft data center for years and they go through water like crazy. This has always been happening.
Then they should pay for it themselves along with electricity without and tax breaks if it’s soooo little
I think they mean each one of the centers every day and the example is every American’s combined water usage
Then Amazon need to pay triple the rate of consumers.
You guys have lawns???
Ok but watering garden gives me food and good for the environment. Plus don’t really water my lawn ever prob why there’s so little left lol
All Americans. Now round that number into an area that fits several communities. It’s using all of their water!
.075% is more than the 0% I use for my rock lawn.
How much is that in gallons though? Not percentages
How much of that affects the local communities and surrounding counties though? Their comparison is irrelevant.
Because we all know there’s no reason at all Amazon would have to lie about its data centers’ resource consumption.
You really can’t believe them. It’s always about the money. Just like Nest#@, they will drain your aquifer while you’re sleeping.
I see the „uses less water than paper plants“ argument is not gaining traction…
The volume isn’t the consequential part. The fact that they put them in water starved areas is the issue. It doesn’t matter if Floridians use a ton of water in their lawns when they’re building DCs places that aren’t paved over swamps
I think most of us would agree we should stop doing that too.
Also…like, there are several hundred thousand times more lawns out there than data centers so…that number isn’t as impressive as they imply.
The arrogance of this false dicotomy is stunning and shows just how stupid they know Americans are.
Americans own literally hundreds of thousands of square miles, and yeah a lot of them water their lawns. Amazons data centers cover a thousand of a percent of that land but use nearly a 10th of a percent of the occasional irrigation needs of 330 million people?
The difference is that data centers contaminated the water
Thats still an incredible amount of water.
Ok Amazon, now tell us what proportion of that water is from the top 10% of households by wealth and bottom 10% households. Please recalculate everything when only considering landscape watering for primary residences.
Thanks to Amazon for pointing out how absolutely shitty lawns actually are for the environment, I guess?
Yes because there are 1 billion times more front lawns vs data centres by square foot. That’s how proportions work. How about an honest measure of water use per square foot?
I don’t trust Amazon and Jeff bazos. That’s the thing
Do people still water their lawns?
Jumping of a plane is much higher than jumping off a building, doesn’t mean one is a better idea than the other
I means it’s not the flex they think it is they just highlighted the case against lawns
Two things can be terrible at the same time.