Here is a picture of Google's Douglas County data center where you can see the water pipes. (Photo: Google)
Billions of searches are done on Google every day. The data is saved in its centers. Have you ever wondered how much water is used in those centers? Google data centers around the world have consumed 1500 crore liters of water in the year 2021. Out of this, 80 percent consumption is being done only in the centers of America.
Google answers the questions of people all over the world. Its data centers are useful in this. But these data centers drink crores of liters of water. Google data centers around the world have spent 1500 crore liters of water in the year 2021. Out of this, 80 percent is the consumption of data centers present in America.
Google gave this information when it was challenged by a media organization, The Oregonian. It was asked that Google should tell how much water a Google data center located in Oregon consumes. The matter got a bit complicated regarding this. Case went to court. The case dragged on for a year. After this, Google revealed that the data center in Oregon has spent 125 crore liters of water in the year 2021. Along with this, the company said that now it will continue to give such reports on time.
This is a picture of Google's data center in Singapore. (Photo: Google)
Google said that water consumption in its facilities has tripled in the last five years. In Oregon, the center is using a quarter of the water supplied to the entire city. According to Google, its data center is using as much water as 29 golf courses in America. In fact, like other tech companies, Google never disclosed how much water it was using. This is the first time that Google has disclosed how much water it uses.
David Mitton, a sustainability consultant at the New York-based Uptime Institute, said Google is probably the first tech giant to disclose its water consumption. Earlier, no company used to disclose water consumption. It was kept secret. But now Google has made itself transparent on water consumption.
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