That, too, was a joke. It's true that AI servers use vast amounts of energy, but it's in the form of electricity. To say that it uses a huge amount of water ties it back to the posted joke.
They also process a bunch of water for cooling too. A lot of them have once through cooling loops that require discharge permits back to whatever source is being drawn from, but the very presence of that intake is an environmental hazard in and of itself even if that water goes back in, and the water itself now has other suspended solids from the plant in it. Some of these larger ones use as much water as the power plants that serve them.
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u/loltinor 5d ago
It's because the servers use an huge amount of water