Amazon’s data centers used 2.5 billion gallons of water

Just after Seattle enacted a one-year data center moratorium that some of Amazon's own employees pushed for, Amazon shared how much water its data centers use, reportedly for the first time.

With concerns about water consumption and energy use a focus of new AI data center construction debates, Amazon says its global data center operations consumed 2.

5 billion gallons of water in 2025 at a rate of 0.