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Data centres used almost one billion litres of water last year, but another industry used far more
The Journal Investigates found that while data centres use huge quantities of water every year, pharmaceutical companies often use a lot more.
At least 1.7 billion litres of water used by data centres in past two years.
Meta and Equinix data centres by far the highest users of water.
Pharmaceutical companies often use many magnitudes more than data centres.
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