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Comment by Etherlord87

6 months ago

Yes, a 24 acre soybean field uses a lot of water.

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simonw  6 months ago

And an average US soybean farm has 312 acres (13x larger than 24 acres): http://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/crops/soybeans-and-oil-crops/...

Which means that in 2025 Microsoft's Querétaro sites used 1/13th of a typical US soybean farm's annual amount of water.

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