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A midsize data center uses roughly as much water as about 100 acres of almond trees or three average hospitals, and more than two 18-hole golf courses. (David Mytton, How much water do data centers use?)Source Ein mittelgroßes Rechenzentrum verbraucht ungefähr so viel Wasser wie etwa 100 Hektar Mandelbäume oder drei durchschnittliche Krankenhäuser und mehr als zwei 18-Loch-Golfplätze. (David Mytton, How much water do data centers use?)Source In 2022 we uploaded approximately 30,000 hours of new content per hour on YouTube.(Laura Ceci, Hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute 2007-2022)Source Im Jahr 2022 haben wir pro Stunde etwa 30.000 Stunden neue Inhalte auf YouTube hochgeladen.(Laura Ceci, Hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute 2007-2022)Source The internet is the world's largest coal-powered machine. (Green Web Foundation)Source Das Internet ist die größte kohlebetriebene Maschine der Welt. (Green Web Foundation) Source The computer used
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related reading
- Data centers consume massive amounts of water – companies rarely tell the public exactly how muchtheconversation.com
- How to Rack 30 Petabytes of Storage | blogsi.inc
- Data Drain: The Land and Water Impacts of the AI Boom - Lincoln Institute of Land Policylincolninst.edu
- Attention Traps - by Varun Shenoy - Varun's Notesvarunshenoy.substack.com
- Data center land use issues are fakesubstack.com
- From Tokens to Burgers – A Water Footprint Face-Offnewsletter.semianalysis.com
- Website Carbon™ Calculator v4 | What's your site's carbon footprint?websitecarbon.com
- Our World in Dataourworldindata.org
- Thinking about other industries like we think about data centers shows how impoverished the debate isblog.andymasley.com
- The Cheap Webpotato.cheap
- Just bury your trash - Works in Progress Magazineworksinprogress.co
- Dwarkesh Goes Inside Jane Street's Latest AI Data Centeryoutube.com