AI Resource Hogs

Convential data center: draws as much electricity as 10,000 to 25,000 households (not good! think about what you do)

AI data center: uses as much electricity as 100,000 households.

"Data centers truly are resource-ravenous. Even a mid-sized data center consumes as much water as a small town, while larger ones require up to 5 million gallons of water every day—as much as a city of 50,000 people.

"Powering and cooling their rows of server stacks also takes an astonishing amount of electricity. A conventional data center—think cloud storage for your work documents or streaming videos—draws as much electricity as 10,000 to 25,000 households, according to the International Energy Agency. But a newer, AI-focused “hyperscale” data center can use as much power as 100,000 homes or more. Meta’s Hyperion data center in Louisiana, for example, is expected to draw more than twice the power of the entire city of New Orleans once completed. Another Meta data center planned in Wyoming will use more electricity than every home in the state combined."

Learn more at https://www.lincolninst.edu/publications/land-lines-magazine/articles/land-water-impacts-data-centers/