By 2050, England alone would need an extra five billion litres of water every day
IN NUMBERS
THE IMPACT OF AI ON DATA CENTRE WA
26m
A small, 1MW data centre is expected to use up to 26 million litres of water a year
Source: University of Oxford
5bn
By 2050, England alone would need an extra five billion litres of water every day
Source: Environment Agency, 2024
50 %
By 2025, 50 % of the world’ s population will live in waterstressed areas – a call to action for data centres
Source: White & Case
14 August 2025