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People Would Rather Have Nuclear Power Plants In Their Area Than AI Data Centers (www.forbes.com)

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[–] general_kitten@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

typical nuclear plants consume about 1.5-3 cubic meters of water per MWh, but when the plant is near a water body so very often only about 1% of that so about 20 liters. So a 1GW plant would actually lose about 500 000 liters of water each day, rest is put back into it's water source body.

AI datacenters typically use 1-15 million liters of usually treated water daily so a larger datacenter is an order of magnitude higher water consumer than a nuclear power plant.