508,869 tCO2.

That's what Meta's single Prineville, Oregon data center emitted in 2023.
Apple's entire US data center footprint. All four locations combined. 471,230 tCO2.
One Meta site beats Apple's whole country operation, right?
New data from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory breaks down electricity, emissions and water for every major Apple and Meta data center in the US.
Meta total: 10.6 million MWh, 3.67 million tCO2, 37.2 million m3 of water.
Apple total: 1.65 million MWh, 471K tCO2, 13 million m3 of water.
Meta's power draw is roughly 6.4x Apple's. Emissions are 7.8x.
Same city even makes it stranger. Prineville, Oregon runs 0.36 tCO2/MWh for Apple's site there. Meta's Prineville facility sits at 0.37. Nearly identical grid.
But Meta pulls over 5x more power out of it.
Scale changes everything guys.
As AI compute demand keeps climbing, which of these two do you think is forced to rethink their infrastructure strategy first?