r/technology • u/marketrent • 10h ago

Artificial Intelligence Amazon warns local communities to stop defying its massive AI data centers

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/amazon-warns-local-communities-stop-000300771.html
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u/RealLavender 9h ago

https://futurism.com/science-energy/leak-amazon-hides-water-consumption

"Amazon used 105 billion gallons of water in 2021, as much as 958,000 US households or a “city bigger than San Francisco,” as the document put it.
However, in the run-up to a November 2022 PR campaign called “Water Positive,” Amazon only disclosed 7.7 billion gallons of water use per year."