Dylan PatelFounder and Chief Analyst, SemiAnalysis · The semiconductor-AI stack

Shoutout to Elon Musk's Colossus 2 being more environmentally friendly than In N Out Burger!!! CRAZY

22 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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This content was created by Dylan Patel. This content was uploaded by Dylan Patel. This is a YouTube video titled "Shoutout to Elon Musk's Colossus 2 being more environmentally friendly than In N Out Burger!!! CRAZY" (published 2026-02-22). It is a single-speaker commentary/monologue in which the speaker compares water usage of a large AI data center (Elon's Colossus 2 — described as ~400 MW, ~200,000 GPUs, ~346 million gallons/year) to water used by In‑N‑Out burger operations (cited ~147 million gallons for a single store's burgers). The speaker argues, with numeric examples, that one burger's worth of water could generate ~2.7 billion tokens — equivalent to 668 years of using Grok at 30 times per day — highlights public concern in Arizona about data center water use, and notes Colossus is building a water recycling plant and aiming for net‑zero impact. The tone is explanatory/viral commentary and the content focuses on environmental impacts of AI infrastructure versus food industry water use.

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Did you know your Double-Double could power Grok for 668 years? You've seen the headlines— Arizona's freaking out and everyone's losing their minds about data center water usage. But let's do some actual math. Take Elon's Colossus 2, one of the biggest data centers on Earth— 400 megawatts, 200,000 GPUs— and compare it to a good old-fashioned In-N-Out. Colossus 2 uses 346 million gallons a year. One In-N-Out store, just the burgers, 147 million gallons. The world's largest AI data center uses the same water as 2.5 burger joints. Put another way, one burger's worth of water generates 2.7 billion tokens. That's 668 years of using Grok, 30 times a day, every single day, for one burger. Now remember, there are 400 In-N-Outs, hundreds of thousands of burger places. That's a whole lot of water. And Colossus? They're building a water recycling plant. Net zero, baby!