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Water Scarcity Threatens 27 Million People in the United States (www.projectcensored.org)

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[–] Xanadu@feddit.online 4 points 3 days ago

Yet the are pushing data centers...Single Facility: A large hyperscale data center can use as much as 200 million gallons of water annually. Some individual data centers, such as one of Google's facilities in Iowa, consumed 1 billion gallons of water in 2024...and you don't think they have an agenda...not to mention the pollution these centers create...Google's global operations, primarily data centers, consumed 6.4 billion gallons in 2023.
Meta's data centers consumed 776 million gallons in 2023...