[freshpots]

It is not trivial at all, it's the same energy used as about 9,000 homes and roughly 50-100 L/s of water wasted to evaporative cooling of said hardware.

"The Dongfang Electric Corporation's 26 MW offshore wind turbine is the largest in the world, surpassing previous models like the Mingyang 20 MW turbine. This turbine's larger size and capacity enable it to generate about 100 GWh of electricity annually, potentially powering 55,000 Chinese homes or 9,200 American homes."

Edit: more info here, https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-ai-impacts-data-cent...

[jeffbee]

Your water use estimate is high by a large factor. Order of magnitude.

Your claim: 50-100 liters per second to cool a 26MW workload.

Actual water consumption, according to Google annual report: 730 liters per second, globally, for an average 3GW load.