It seems that they are studying everything now a days, including the amount of water that could be involved in the download of single gigabyte or GB of data. Imagine now that the average person in the United States uses approximately 3.7 GB of data a month. To learn more about this study, read more in this article here.

Key Takeaways:

• up to 200 litres of water could be involved in the download of a single gigabyte (GB) of data
• Whenever you check social media, send an email, or stream a video, you will be receiving and exchanging data with a data centre somewhere in the world
• Facebook, Apple, Microsoft and Google have made substantial improvements with respect to their water footprint

“Apple has also been moving increasingly into green power, saying that all of its data centres are now 100% renewably powered.”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37471911