typical nuclear plants consume about 1.5-3 cubic meters of water per MWh, but when the plant is near a water body so very often only about 1% of that so about 20 liters. So a 1GW plant would actually lose about 500 000 liters of water each day, rest is put back into it’s water source body.
AI datacenters typically use 1-15 million liters of usually treated water daily so a larger datacenter is an order of magnitude higher water consumer than a nuclear power plant.
typical nuclear plants consume about 1.5-3 cubic meters of water per MWh, but when the plant is near a water body so very often only about 1% of that so about 20 liters. So a 1GW plant would actually lose about 500 000 liters of water each day, rest is put back into it’s water source body.
AI datacenters typically use 1-15 million liters of usually treated water daily so a larger datacenter is an order of magnitude higher water consumer than a nuclear power plant.