Comment by insane_dreamer

but if you compare with another product mentioned in your link, it takes 15,000 liters of water to produce a kilo of meat and the EU produces about 6.5M tons of beef / year, which would put the water consumption at very roughly double that for chocolate; that would be only 1.3x the projected use by AI data centers.

So chocolate has a shockingly high water consumption especially for an "extra" product (much like almonds) compared to beef (leaving aside the vegetarian argument, and in terms of societal dependency only). And beef by far consumes the most water per kilo compared to other meats.

I think the main takeaway is that we should reduce chocolate consumption, and that AI data centers may consume as much or close to, all beef production.