Amazon withdraws 2.5 billion gallons of water for data centers in 2025

Even moderately sized data centers can have an outsized local impact.

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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 0.12 liters per kilowatt-hour of electricity, dropping by two percent from its 2024 total even as it expanded operations. Amazon also claims it's using water more efficiently than some Big Tech rivals - this graphic in Amazon's report points to M … Read the full story at The Verge.

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Amazon has signed a $17.5 billion delayed draw term loan with a syndicate of lenders including Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, HSBC, and BofA Securities, giving the company flexibility to draw down funds on its own timeline for what it described as general corporate purposes. The deal follows a reported $14 billion Canadian bond sale […]