The Shocking Truth About Water-Guzzling Hyperscale Data Centers

The useful part

We are witnessing one of the most acts of public deception in modern history, and it centers on the simple claim that artificial intelligence data centers don't consume water. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick recently stood before the public and declared that data centers don't use water. As I detailed in my own coverage of the data center boom, these facilities are not the clean, ethereal 'clouds' the industry wants you to believe -- they are industrial parasites that consume the very resources we need to survive.

How it works

• Just a year ago, he was singing a completely different tune, acknowledging that these facilities demand immense volumes of water to cool their machinery.
• Lutnick and Trump, among others, are running a top-down misinformation campaign, and those of us who have been sounding the alarm about Big Tech's predatory expansion are now being proven right.
• The stakes have never been higher, as local communities are forced to sacrifice their most vital resources at the altar of Silicon Valley's delusions of grandeur.
• Billions of Gallons Vanishing Into Cooling Towers Let's move beyond political spin and look at the hard, unassai...

Details worth keeping

What makes Lutnick's claim so infuriating is its sheer audacity.