Morgan Stanley projected that annual water use for cooling and electricity generation by AI data centers could reach approximately 1,000 billion liters (one trillion liters) by 2028.

Many AI data center facilities use evaporative cooling, which involves turning clean water into water vapor to carry heat away.

Data centers across the industry swallow 449 million gallons (1.7 billion liters) of water daily.

Bernie Sanders states that AI data centers have impacts on scarce water resources, cause noise pollution, and often run on fossil fuels, contributing to climate change.

AI data centers use water primarily for cooling computer chips, which get hot and perform less efficiently when overheated.