Amazon is spending $20 million to support water conservation on the Colorado River — but still won't say how much water it uses
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Water is becoming a core constraint for hyperscale compute, and $20M in conservation without transparent usage data shows how early we are in real resource accounting. If your AI roadmap depends on cloud, start asking vendors for water and power intensity metrics now—these will become procurement criteria, not PR footnotes.
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