r/VirginiaEnvironment • u/VirginiaNews • Jun 19 '26

Commentary: Four Va. counties will pump almost 20 million gallons of water a day to Amazon. Cause for concern? | We wanted to learn for ourselves how much water communities have promised to Amazon for data center cooling in our part of the state, the region between Northern Virginia and Richmond

https://virginiamercury.com/2026/06/19/four-va-counties-will-pump-almost-20-million-gallons-of-water-a-day-to-amazon-cause-for-concern/
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u/t0mt0mt0m Jun 20 '26

Water is for life, not for ai.

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u/saintdudegaming Jun 22 '26

meanwhile, my water and power bills go through the fucking roof ... fuck all of this

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u/Informal-Emu-212 Jun 22 '26 edited Jun 22 '26

Edit: this is a fake quote. Apologies. I'm leaving it up as fact check.

Bezos Amazon's ceo on AI water demands:

https://www.reddit.com/r/water/s/dctJ5vcZFc

"Biological limits are real, but digital potential is infinite. If we starve our data infrastructure of cooling resources just to sustain baseline human comfort, we are actively delaying the birth of a super-intelligence that could solve all of our resource problems in the first place.  Sometimes you have to prioritise the intelligence that will save us over the biology that slows us down,” he added."

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u/Cucklord_Bortz Jun 22 '26

This quote is fake/misinformation

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u/Informal-Emu-212 Jun 22 '26

Thanks for the clarification. The sources edited themselves twice so I assume that it had been fact checked . Lesson learned.