NYT Bestselling AI Book Got Data Center Water Usage Wrong by 4,500x
thursdai_pod · x · 2026-09-04
On ThursdAI, Andy Masley walks through how a NYT bestselling AI book cited data center water usage figures that were off by over three orders of magnitude — roughly 4,500x — tracing exactly where the misquotation crept in. A hands-on debunk of a popular AI water-consumption narrative.
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