Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres' full water use secret, leaked document shows

[Coventina]

Amazon strategised about keeping the public in the dark over the true extent of its datacentres’ water use, a leaked internal document reveals.

The biggest owner of datacentres in the world, Amazon dwarfs competitors Microsoft and Google and is planning a huge increase in capacity as part of a push into artificial intelligence. The Seattle firm operates hundreds of active facilities, with many more in development despite concerns over how much water is being used to cool their vast arrays of circuitry.

Amazon defends its approach and has taken steps to manage how efficient its water use is, but it has faced criticism over transparency. Microsoft and Google regularly publish figures for their water consumption, but Amazon has never publicly disclosed how much water its server farms consume.

When designing a campaign for water efficiency, the company’s cloud computing division chose to account for only a smaller water usage figure that does not include all the ways its datacentres use water so as to minimise the risk to its reputation, according to a leaked memo seen by SourceMaterial and the Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/25/amazon-datacentres-water-use-disclosure

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But, keep on using Amazon, because: GIVE ME CONVENIENCE OR GIVE ME DEATH!!

[Scrivener7]

1. We do love to hand power to those who want to destroy us.

I love "give me convenience or give me death." It's perfectly apt.

[maxrandb]

2. In fucking liberal Seattle no less

Look, it's become as obvious as the nose on my face.

Nothing will change! The racism, fascism, misogyny, hatred and white supremacy...NONE OF IT...will change, unless and until we make racism, fascism, misogyny, hatred and white supremacy UNPROFITABLE to the corporations, businesses and individuals that fund and enable it.

It's as simple as that.

It's time for Blue States and cities, that account for 80 FUCKING PERCENT of America's GDP, to start fucking pulling business licenses of fucking companies that are dragging all of us TO A NAZI FUCKING HELLSCAPE!

If America won't participate in a General Strike, it's time for Blue America to drag the rest of us, kicking and screaming into one.

Meanwhile, while millions of Americans starve, Jeff "BOZOS" is over in Italy, declaring that his fucking future is so fucking bright, he has to wear fucking shades.

Sorry to curse like a fucking Boatswain's Mate, but I didn't spend 30 fucking years of my life in the fucking United States FUCKING Navy, to see my country destroyed by the most vile, but also the most stupidest fucking moronic asspickle to ever walk amongst us.