Amazon claims data centers are 7-times more water-efficient than rivals as Seattle pauses new builds

Pipes carrying reclaimed water for cooling at an Amazon Web Services data center. (AWS Photo) Amazon Web Services on Thursday announced that efforts to curb water use at its data centers have made it seven times more water-efficient than the industry average. The company says it’s 75% of the way toward its goal of being water positive by 2030, meaning for each gallon consumed at a data center, it will return a greater volume to the same community where it was drawn.