Google publishes a paper showing that its AI models only use 0.26 mL of water in data centers per prompt.
After, this article gets published: "Google says a typical AI prompt only uses 5 drops of water – experts say that's misleading."
The reason the expert says this is… pic.twitter.com/vxLE7dZN4m
— Andy Masley (@AndyMasley) August 23, 2025
Data center water consumption is extremely small no matter the use case. The objection to it for AI and anything else is just typical degrowther bullshit.