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> 8.4 million gallons of water per year

That is <10% of the amount of water required to grow corn on the same land as the data center. Acre for acre, data centers consume a tiny fraction of the water consumed by agriculture.

Are the corn subsidies to produce high-fructose corn syrup and ethanol that important?



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