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The 2022 estimate for how much water was used in Texas in total was 15.2 million acre-feet, or approximately 5 trillion gallons. So these AI centers are accounting for 0.00926% of Texas' water use.
Why are people being asked to reduce showers over such a small amount?
Perhaps there are reasons beyond just these data centers why Texas has a water shortage.
What are you implying? I'm not asking rhetorically.
There are many other inefficient uses of water much bigger that these data centers. Texas has a major agriculture sector despite being basically a desert. People love to have green lawns. And a quarter of Texas is currently in a drought.
My point is that if you shut these data centers down right this instant the needle isn't going to budge much.