Us vs Nature

01 · Water, in real time

What we use, next to the rivers.

How much water flows through what we build, next to the great rivers of the earth, shown at its real rate.

Us

What we build

Nature

What the earth carries

🤖 AI Hyperscale data center

438 L/s

≈ the home water use of ~150,000 people

37.9 million liters a day · ≈37.9 million liters a day · source ↗

🐟 Wild salmon stream

438 L/s

≈ fills an Olympic pool every ~95 minutes

37.8 million liters a day · ≈400–500 liters a second · source ↗ · ● live sensor ↗

🤖 AI Hyperscale data center · ● = 1 liter · 100% true flow🐟 Wild salmon stream · ● = 1 liter · 100% true flowWater volume ratio · 1.0 : 1

Each dot represents 1 liter. Water volumes are proportional to flow at a shared illustrative speed, not actual river dimensions. Large flows are sampled; the percentage is shown above.

AI Hyperscale data center, since you opened this page

0 liters

🛁
0.0
bathtubs
💬
0
AI replies' worth (30 ml)
🔍
0
web searches' worth (0.6 ml)
🏊
0.0000
Olympic pools

Ranges shown at their midpoints. Crypto figure from Greenpeace / Alex de Vries. 1 US gallon = 3.785 liters. AI replies counted at 30 ml, the midpoint of 10–50 ml. Water volumes share one comparison scale.

Sources