Indeed.
Also Spain and Israel.
Amazon, Microsoft and Google are operating datacentres that use vast amounts of water in some of the world’s driest areas and are building many more, the non-profit investigatory organisation SourceMaterial and the Guardian have found. Amazon’s three proposed new datacentres in the Aragon region of northern Spain – each next to an existing Amazon datacentre – are licensed to use an estimated 755,720 cubic metres of water a year, roughly enough to irrigate 233 hectares (576 acres) of corn, one of the region’s main crops.
The increasing use of AI will only exacerbate a growing problem that Trump isn't concerned about at all as 'Project Stargate', which he called “the largest AI infrastructure project in history”, when it gets underway...(the Chinese company DeepSeek launched its own AI model, claiming it had used far less computing power – and therefore less water – than its western rivals).
Trump can barely complete a coherent sentence and the companies he enthusiastically endorses in this project don't seem to comprehend the long term problems concerned with this growth. “Neither people nor data can live without water,” said Aurora Gómez of the campaign group Tu Nube Seca Mi Río ('Your cloud is drying my river.) “But human life is essential and data isn’t.”
