Big tech's new datacentres will take water from the driest areas

6 points by exiguus 3 days ago | 1 comment
  • exiguus 3 days ago
    > Amazon’s three proposed new datacentres in the Aragon region of northern Spain – each next to an existing Amazon datacentre – are licensed to use an estimated 755,720 cubic metres of water a year, roughly enough to irrigate 233 hectares (576 acres) of corn, one of the region’s main crops.

    This was the example that really got me thinking.