Follow-up of the AI Boom: Study Warns Against Water Stress From New Mega Data Centers
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The water requirements of German data centres could more than double by 2030. A study by the Oeko-Institut brings alternatives to high water consumption into discussion.
Construction site of a data center in Lübbenau, Spreewald, in which 100,000 AI chips with a connection power of around 200 megawatts are to be installed. – All rights reserved: IMAGO / Jochen HeckelIn addition to electricity, data centers consume large quantities of water.The Federal Government wants to massively expand them as part of the AI hype – without any information on water consumption.
Following warnings from environmentalists, the expansion of data centres triggered by the AI boom threatens to put a massive burden on regional water supply in Germany. According to a short study by the Oeko-Institut on behalf of Greenpeace, the local server farms used around 13 billion litres of water for cooling in 2025.
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