Amazon the world’s largest data centre owner has once again found itself at the centre of controversy. According to reports, the tech giant who is making a major play for artificial intelligence and advancement is allegedly misleading the public about the existing extent of its public water use to power its. Documents reportedly obtained by Source Material back in 2021 alone Amazon’s huge facilities consumed more than 105bn gallons of water enough to provide natural water for more than 900,000 households nationwide.
On Amazon’s part it gets worse. According to the same report, the document which revealed the massive water usage was originally created one month after AWS (Amazon’s cloud service) actually had an entire marketing campaign around limiting the water it used for its facilities titled Water Positive in November 2022.
Not shockingly the leak is the latest in a long series of missteps by Amazon.