The heaviest demand on America's water isn't data centers or AI. It's from everyday uses such as growing food, watering lawns and flushing toilets.

AI's Every time you use ChatGPT to write a 100-word email, roughly 519 millilitres of water is consumed, nearly the volume of a standard water bottle. That figure comes from a…

The heaviest demand on America's water isn't data centers or AI. It's from everyday uses such as growing food, watering lawns and flushing toilets.

Water use has emerged as one of the biggest pressure points in the AI data center buildout, pushing companies like Amazon to publicly defend their efforts.