Adjusted beef consumption: 4.5 million litres of water can be used to produce 300kg of beef -> US (highest beef consumer/capita) consumes 23.3kg of beef , enough to feed ~13 Americans (30 Brits, ~43 Japanese) yummy delicious grass-fed beef yearly!
These number seem off. A single head of cattle may contain 300kg of edible beef with a hanging weight of roughly twice that. In what world does raising a single bovine consume of 4.5 million liters of water?
Neither the cow nor the cow's food retains much water; the water is merely delayed a little in its journey to the local watershed, and in vast parts of the US, local rainfall is adequate for this purpose (power irrigation isn't required for the crops, and cattle may drink from a pond.) Even if a cow drinks pumped well water, the majority of its nourishment will have been itself sustained by local natural rainfall.
A datacenter's use of water over any timescale can hardly be compared with a cow's.
> Neither the cow nor the cow's food retains much water
Isn't it true for datacenters too? The water used by them does not disappear, one could even argue that cows capture permanently more water than datacenters.
Adjusted beef consumption: 4.5 million litres of water can be used to produce 300kg of beef -> US (highest beef consumer/capita) consumes 23.3kg of beef , enough to feed ~13 Americans (30 Brits, ~43 Japanese) yummy delicious grass-fed beef yearly!