Journalist Karen Hao acknowledged a significant error in her book regarding the water consumption of a proposed Google data center in Chile, originally claiming it would use over a thousand times the water of the local population, a figure later corrected by a factor of 1,000 due to a misunderstanding of units.
You’re Thinking About AI and Water All Wrong
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December 12, 2025
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