There is currently no public breakdown of U.S. data center water consumption by AI vs non-AI workloads. However, AI appears to account for a minority of total data center compute and electricity demand today, suggesting its share of water consumption is also likely to be a minority, though the exact proportion is unknown.
However I can give some examples of cloud services:
AWS / Amazon data centers used roughly 2.5 billion gallons globally in 2025
All U.S. data centers: about 17.4 billion gallons per year direct water consumption in 2023, projected to reach 38–73 billion gallons per year by 2028. That includes cloud, AI, enterprise, colocation, storage, etc.
There is currently no public breakdown of U.S. data center water consumption by AI vs non-AI workloads. However, AI appears to account for a minority of total data center compute and electricity demand today, suggesting its share of water consumption is also likely to be a minority, though the exact proportion is unknown.
However I can give some examples of cloud services:
AWS / Amazon data centers used roughly 2.5 billion gallons globally in 2025
https://www.latitudemedia.com/news/amazon-finally-reports-its-annual-water-use-at-data-centers
Google data centers used roughly 7.7 billion gallons globally in 2024
https://www.latitudemedia.com/news/data-center-water-use-black-box-google-trying-to-change
All U.S. data centers: about 17.4 billion gallons per year direct water consumption in 2023, projected to reach 38–73 billion gallons per year by 2028. That includes cloud, AI, enterprise, colocation, storage, etc.
https://mostpolicyinitiative.org/science-note/data-center-water-use