The Real Water Cost of AI Isn't Inside Data Centers. But Tech Companies Don’t Report It.

Water use is x10 of what they claim, and more damning than that: The bigger issue is the outright oligarch-coded willingness to sidestep laws and governmental procedures to put giant and morally hazardous factories in water poor regions.

Additionally without regulation, the numbers could be even higher since they also claim the numbers they are listing (such as meta's own words) are lies and that the actual numbers are many times higher than those given. The main argument is consistently that we just don't know, the the companies are being willfully vague of the actual water amount which are blacked out like the epstein files.

(placing this as news, since its journalism. If it fits discussion more I will change it.)