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It’s astronomical. The amount of water Google uses to cool its servers is colossal. The water consumption of the American company, equal to 15 billion liters for the year 2022, represents the water used each year by the inhabitants of a city such as Montpellier or Strasbourg.

Every action you take on the Internet has consequences for our planet. We hear about it more and more digital pollution, this is often difficult to calculate concretely. Today, while Google has released the amount of water needed to run its servers, there is some very concrete data that allows us to simply understand the extent of thee-pollution. Every internet search, every streamed video or song, every archived photo, or even every sent email represents an amount of energy and water consumed.

15 billion liters of water a year: revealed how much water Google uses to cool its servers © Pixabay

In 2022, for example, Google’s data center located in Iowa in the United States alone used more than three billion liters of water to cool its servers. Necessary to cool these “super-computers” that store all the data on the web, water is essential for the American company. In Oklahoma, 2.5 billion liters are used to cool cars each year. A sum, once again astronomical, while drought threatens more and more inhabitants of our planet.

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An astronomical record for Google but more scrutinized than most other tech companies

If the figures are exorbitant, it is clear that on average Google manages to consume less water than its competitors to cool its servers. With an average of 1.1 liters per kilowatt hour in energy consumption, the search engine is far ahead of most other American industries which consume, on average, 1.8 liters of water per kilowatt hour.

Additionally, Google also wants to amplify its transition to cleaner consumption. The American company plans to operate by 2030″ 24/7 carbon-free energy says the published environmental report. As a reminder, the carbon footprint caused by sendinga photo by post would be equivalent to a trip of 50 meters by car.