Amazon’s data centers used 2.5 billion gallons of water last year
中文摘要
亚马逊披露其数据中心去年耗水25亿加仑。尽管AI建设引发用水担忧，其单位耗水强度较2024年下降了2%。
English Summary
Amazon's data centers used 2.5 billion gallons of water last year. Despite AI-driven water concerns, its water intensity per kilowatt-hour decreased by 2% from 2024.
Just after Seattle enacted a one-year data center moratorium that some of Amazon's own employees pushed for, Amazon shared how much water its data centers use, reportedly for the first time. With concerns about water consumption and energy use a focus of new AI data center construction debates, Amazon says its global data center operations consumed 2.5 billion gallons of water in 2025 at a rate of 0.12 liters per kilowatt-hour of electricity, dropping by two percent from its 2024 total even as it expanded operations. Amazon also claims it's using water more efficiently than some Big Tech rivals - this graphic in Amazon's report points to M … Read the full story at The Verge.