{"id":9714,"date":"2026-06-12T12:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9714"},"modified":"2026-06-12T12:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:01:08","slug":"amazons-data-centers-used-2-5-billion-gallons-of-water-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9714","title":{"rendered":"Amazon&#8217;s data centers used 2.5 billion gallons of water last year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom:1em; color:#666; font-size:0.9em;\">\n<strong>Stevie Bonifield<\/strong><br \/>\n &bull;<br \/>\nJune 11, 2026\n<\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Graphic image of a data center.\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Cath Virginia \/ The Verge, Getty Images\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/STKS528_DATA_CENTERS2_C.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Just after Seattle enacted a one-year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/948031\/seattle-officially-enacted-an-emergency-one-year-moratorium-on-new-data-centers\">data center moratorium<\/a> that some of Amazon&#8217;s own employees pushed for, Amazon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aboutamazon.com\/news\/sustainability\/amazon-data-center-water-usage\">shared<\/a> how much water its data centers use, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latitudemedia.com\/news\/amazon-finally-reports-its-annual-water-use-at-data-centers\/\">reportedly<\/a> for the first time. With concerns about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/845831\/ai-chips-data-center-power-water\">water consumption and energy use<\/a> 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 2 percent from its 2024 total even as it expanded operations. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Amazon also claims it&#8217;s using water more efficiently than some Big Tech rivals &#8211; this graphic in Amazon&#8217;s report points to Mic \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/948534\/amazon-data-centers-water-use\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:1.5em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/948534\/amazon-data-centers-water-use\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stevie Bonifield &bull; June 11, 2026 Just after Seattle enacted a one-year data center moratorium that some of Amazon&#8217;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<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9714\" class=\"themebutton2\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}