The drought statistic is true but the water consumption one is batshit insane lmao. It all comes form a press firm called Mordor Intelligence which hasn’t meaningfully backed up that claim.

AI datacenters are likely to not even breach 100 billion gallons BY 2028. (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/08/datacenter-ai-drought-water)

Obviously that’s still a lot of water, but 264 billion gallons right now is an absurd claim.