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Water & cooling

Operator water claims, kept separate from measured withdrawals.

Source review 2026-11-03

Meta states its Gallatin campus is designed to use 80% less water than the average data center; that is an operator design claim, not a measured figure. [Meta]

The Commercial Appeal reported in 2024 that MLGW confirmed xAI was looking to build a greywater facility to aid cooling at Paul R. Lowry Road. [The Commercial Appeal]

Our analysis: where a campus has not disclosed water use, the value is unknown, not zero.

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