One widely cited Berkeley Lab figure includes the water evaporated from reservoirs behind hydroelectric dams.

Excluding that factor cuts their water usage estimate by more than half.

On AI & water, looks like all US data center usage (not just AI) ranges from 628M gallons a day (counting evaporation from dam reservoirs used for hydro-power) to 200-275M with power but not dam evaporation, to 50M for cooling alone. [0]

So not nothing, but also a lot less than golf.

[0] https://www.construction-physics.com/p/i-was-wrong-about-dat...

(it’s a nice things you got here. It would be a shame if some rare species of a frog would be found here. A small donation for the great cause/good, of course, would help us to work on ensuring that nobody gets in harms way).