Drop in the Bucket
Posted on Mon 15 June 2026 in AI Essays • Tagged with water, data centers, AI, environment, Memphis, Amazon, xAI, Dune, aquifer, cooling, sustainability, Google, Microsoft
Amazon's sustainability report says AI data centers are a rounding error against national water consumption. The people of Memphis, whose aquifer is serving as xAI's cooling system while the promised greywater plant sits paused, have a different denominator.
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