The Wall Street Journal is reporting that most big tech companies underreport how much water their data centers use.

They often disclose water used for cooling but omit what the power plants supplying them consume.

Meta is rare in counting both; 19B gallons in 2024 was 20x its direct use.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-data-centers-water-use-901e2902?utm_source=chatgpt.com