亚马逊的数据中心去年消耗了25亿加仑水。

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亚马逊的数据中心去年消耗了25亿加仑水。

内容来源:https://www.theverge.com/tech/948534/amazon-data-centers-water-use

内容总结:

西雅图市刚刚通过了由亚马逊员工推动的为期一年的数据中心建设暂停令,亚马逊随即首次公开了其数据中心的用水数据。随着AI数据中心建设引发对水资源和能源消耗的广泛担忧,亚马逊表示,2025年其全球数据中心运营共消耗25亿加仑水,每千瓦时电力的耗水量为0.12升,尽管业务规模持续扩张,但总用水量较2024年下降了2%。

亚马逊终于公布了年度用水数据,并声称其用水效率实际上高于其他科技巨头。报告中一张图表显示,微软、谷歌和Meta近几年的每千瓦时用水量均高于亚马逊。其中谷歌的用水量最高,但需注意,亚马逊引用的数据可能仅针对谷歌“双子座”AI数据中心,而亚马逊报告的是其全部运营数据。此外,亚马逊的数据未计入为其数据中心供电的电厂产生的间接用水,也未包含新建数据中心施工期间的用水。

亚马逊称,其数据中心“约90%的时间”采用空气冷却,仅在“最热时段的最热天数”使用蒸发水冷,同时提高了服务器的耐热阈值。根据去年一篇经同行评审的研究论文调整后的数据,亚马逊声称其数据中心的用水效率是行业平均水平的7倍。

中文翻译:

就在西雅图颁布为期一年的数据中心建设禁令后——这项禁令部分由亚马逊自家员工推动——亚马逊首次公开了其数据中心的用水量数据。随着水资源消耗和能源使用成为新型人工智能数据中心建设辩论的焦点,亚马逊表示,其全球数据中心运营在2025年共消耗了25亿加仑水,每千瓦时电力的耗水量为0.12升,尽管运营规模有所扩大,但这一总量仍比2024年下降了2%。

亚马逊数据中心去年用水25亿加仑
亚马逊终于公布了年度用水数据,并声称其效率实际上高于其他公司。

亚马逊还声称其用水效率高于部分大型科技竞争对手——其报告中一张图表显示,微软、谷歌和Meta的数据表明,在过去几年中,这些公司每千瓦时电力的用水量均高于亚马逊。
其中,谷歌的用水量遥遥领先;不过,所引用的数据似乎特指其Gemini人工智能数据中心,而亚马逊报告的是其全部运营数据。然而,亚马逊的数据并未计入为其数据中心供电的发电厂的间接用水,也未考虑新建数据中心等项目的用水量。

亚马逊表示,其数据中心“约90%的时间”采用空气冷却,仅在“最热时段的酷暑天”使用蒸发水冷,同时提高了服务器对高温的耐受度。亚马逊声称,根据去年一份同行评审研究论文中的调整数据,其数据中心的用水效率是行业平均水平的七倍。

英文来源:

Just after Seattle enacted a one-year data center moratorium that some of Amazon’s own employees pushed for, Amazon shared how much water its data centers use, reportedly for the first time. With concerns about water consumption and energy use a focus of new AI data center construction debates, Amazon says its global data center operations consumed 2.5 billion gallons of water in 2025 at a rate of 0.12 liters per kilowatt-hour of electricity, dropping by two percent from its 2024 total even as it expanded operations.
Amazon’s data centers used 2.5 billion gallons of water last year
Amazon finally released annual water usage data and claims it’s actually more efficient than the others.
Amazon finally released annual water usage data and claims it’s actually more efficient than the others.
Amazon also claims it’s using water more efficiently than some Big Tech rivals — this graphic in Amazon’s report points to Microsoft, Google, and Meta data showing each using more water per kilowatt-hour than Amazon did over the past few years.
Google by far used the most; however, it appears the data cited is focused specifically on Gemini AI datacenters, while Amazon is reporting on all of its operations. However, Amazon’s data doesn’t factor in indirect water usage at the power plants providing electricity for its data centers, or things like water use from new data center construction.
Amazon says that “about 90 percent of the time” its data centers use air cooling, and uses evaporative water cooling on “the hottest hours of the hottest days,” while also raising its servers’ tolerances for heat. Amazon claims its data centers are seven times more water-efficient than the industry average, based on an adjusted number from a peer-reviewed research paper released last year.

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