JPMorgan Report on AI Data Center's Water Consumption

TapTechNews, May 25th. JPMorgan Chase recently released a research report titled 'In-depth Exploration of Power, Cooling, Power Grid and ESG Impact'. Analyst William Yang and his team said that AI data centers have received wide attention due to their heavy electricity consumption, but people often overlook the fact that they consume a high amount of water.

This report cited data from Bluefield Research. From 2017 to 2022, the total water consumption of global data centers increased by 6% annually, and by 2030, the water consumption may jump to 450 million gallons per day (TapTechNews note: 1.70343 billion liters). From this perspective, in about 4.5 years, global data centers need about the fresh water of 681 Olympic-standard swimming pools every day for cooling.

The analyst said that in areas with scarce water resources, the huge water demand of data centers may trigger more intense competition, making the water supply tight and even leading to the closure of data centers.

Currently, Wall Street banks are flocking to the 'next artificial intelligence trading' and rushing into the investment theme of 'powering America', whether it is power grid companies, or bulk commodities such as copper, gold, silver, uranium, and artificial intelligence chip manufacturers to adapt to the explosive growth of artificial intelligence data centers nationwide expected by the end of this century and beyond.