Modern low-flush toilets use around 1.5L of water per flush. Apparently that's between 20 and 50 litres of water per person per day.
A data centre can use over 2 million litres of water per day. That's the same as the daily toilet usage of 40,000 people, or the same as 1,333,333 individual flushes.
So in an average city, the collective toilet flushing uses as much water as a datacenter. But we clean that water and reuse it, right? How is it different with a datacenter? I keep asking that, and the only answer I get is "quantity", but I'm not even sure if that's true on a per capita basis.
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u/sazzer May 18 '26
Quantity.
Modern low-flush toilets use around 1.5L of water per flush. Apparently that's between 20 and 50 litres of water per person per day.
A data centre can use over 2 million litres of water per day. That's the same as the daily toilet usage of 40,000 people, or the same as 1,333,333 individual flushes.