AI data centers are less thirsty now, tech giants say

AI data centres are less thirsty now, tech giants say

In 2025, data centres consumed 222 billion liters of water worldwide for cooling. Read more at straitstimes.com.

AI data centres are less thirsty now, say tech giants

Rystad Energy said global data centres consumed 222 billion litres of water in 2025, with that figure potentially rising to 644 billion litres by 2030 without adaptive measures.

AI data centers are less thirsty now, tech giants say

The tech giants spending billions of dollars on them say the water part, at least, is solvable. Data centers are the warehouses full of computer servers that run the internet and increasingly artificial intelligence. The computers get hot, and keeping them cool takes water. American chip giant Nvidia said in a June report that it can eliminate water consumption almost entirely at some facilities when deploying DSX, its newest system for designin…