"There is precedent for data center operators to wildly underestimate the amount of water their services will consume. Earlier this year, Meta announced plans to build its headquarters in Southern Europe in the Spanish city of Talavera de la Reina—plans which, the local government claimed, would use “little or no” water."
Activist group Tu Nube Seca Mi Río discovered it would 665.4 million liters of water every year.
https://www.techpolicy.press/why-we-dont-know-ais-true-water-footprint/
More Big Tech lies.
Gerry McGovern /
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