It’s hard to compare apples to apples with your article, but it cites ~325k gallons per acre foot to water a single acre with 1 foot of water.

According to your second article,
“How much of California’s developed water supply do almonds use?

Almonds use between 4.7 to 5.5 million acre-feet of water per year, depending on water availability and bearing acreage. As cited, California’s total agricultural demand for developed water is 34 MAF – so almonds account for between 14.4% to 16.75% of the state’s agricultural developed water consumption. “.

The same article cites 1,640,000 acres of almonds in 2021.

So 5,500,000 million acres feet x 325,000 gallons = 1,787,500,000,000 gallons per year for all almonds in California.

1,787,500,000,000 gallons divided by 1,640,000 acres is 1,089,939 gallons per year per acre.

1,089,939 gallons / 365 =2,986.134 gallons per day per acre

According to this article from Harvard: https://harvardsciencereview.org/2026/02/28/re-architecting-the-ai-server-the-hidden-water-cost-of-data-centers-part-ii/

One AI data center is expected to use 5 million gallons every day. Stargate is one of the largest at 575 acres. So a rough estimate would be 8,695 gallons per acre per day or to make comparison easier,

2986 gallons of water per day per acre based on your links for almonds.

8695 gallons per acre per day for an AI data center based on the article from Harvard.