"It’s no wonder that companies are silent about exactly how much water their facilities use. The Data Center Coalition, an industry lobbying group, opposed the California disclosure bill—the one that Newsom then vetoed. In 2021, a city in Oregon sued a local newspaper to prevent it from reporting on Google’s water use. After the case was finally settled, news reports revealed that Google’s data centers accounted for more than a quarter of local water consumption." https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/ai-zuckerberg-tech-regulation-data-security/#