• yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
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    20 days ago

    Oh, you’re right. I used the Wikipedia article as source and it said:

    Distribution of this use among sectors was: thermoelectric power generation 66.2%, manufacturing 13.6%, residential 9.0%, agriculture 4.7%, commercial and institutional 2.7%, water treatment and distribution systems 2.3%, mining 1.1%, and oil and gas extraction 0.5%.

    Yet the previous sentence said this was about Canada. Whoops.

    Though in Europe and North America, where a big chunk of data centers are typically built, agriculture tends to have a lower share with industry (including but not limited to power generation) having a bigger one:

    https://ourworldindata.org/water-use-stress