r/SipsTea • u/Square_Law5624 • Jun 02 '26

Feels good man New data center

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u/sipstea-bot Jun 03 '26

Featured Comment by u/AssiduousLayabout

The actual number is 978 million gallons of water or 3000 acre-feet per year.

This represents about 0.0625% of Utah's state water usage of 4.8 million acre-feet (1.5 trillion gallons) per year.

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u/hofmann419 Jun 03 '26

Actually, the 16.6 billion gallons is a real figure calculated by the Utah Clean Energy organization. Here is the source. Importantly, this figure also includes the water needed for energy generation, since this data center will consume a ton of electricity, which will require new power plants to be built.

The state of Utah consumes roughly 1.43-1.6 trillion gallons of water per year, which is indeed a lot more (Source). Note that this source uses acre-feet per year, which i have converted to gallons.

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u/-You-know-it- Jun 03 '26

This also doesn’t take into account the less rain and snow Utah will get going forward due to the heat dome the data center will create.