c/o Jay Lund, Vice Director, Center for Watershed Engineering Distinguished Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

This is a bit of a dead horse, but the magnitude of how off the public is on this continues to amaze me. Pete Buttigieg did a Tulsa town hall a week or so ago where someone cited it taking "10,000 gallons of water just to generate one photo".[0]

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCc-ipWVShY&t=1h5m43s

one environmental concern down, hundreds to go! keep up guys!

The author uses a measurement I'm not familiar with so I used AI to translate it.

>Using the broader initial AI water use estimate of 32,000 acre-ft/year to 290,000 acre-ft/year

Note : 1 acre-foot is approximately equal to 325,851 gallons.

AI : That estimate converts to approximately 10.4 billion to 94.5 billion gallons per year.

Ya 10 billion gallons of water (low estimate) is totally nothing. Thx for this informative blog post.

28.6 million gallons per day.

As a more complete title...

AI uses less water than the public thinks and more water than Anthropic or OpenAI report.

Both sides have dishonest reporting