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AI Is Draining Water From Areas That Need It Most

Each time you ask an AI chatbot to summarize a lengthy legal document or conjure up a cartoon squirrel wearing glasses, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-ai-impacts-data-centers-water-data/