Debate over data-center water claims centers on alleged funding and calculation error

An allegation was made that some anti-data-center campaigns are intentionally funded by China, though the excerpts do not identify the alleged funding sources. The claim was presented alongside the view that data centers do not waste energy or water.

The discussion characterized fears that data centers could make the world run out of water as poorly supported, saying their origin may have been a calculation error off by several orders of magnitude. It also argued that political leaders still need to rebut such claims and suggested that people often repeat them without checking the underlying calculations; ChatGPT was mentioned as a tool for solving math problems.