It is how difficult that number was for the public to obtain.

The Dalles spent 13 months fighting to keep Google’s water use secret
— then records showed the data center campus consumed roughly a third of the Oregon city’s supply
https://scienceblog.com/j-the-town-of-the-dalles-oregon-spent-two-years-fighting-google-in-court-just-to-learn-how-much-of-its-river-water-the-companys-data-centers-were-using-and-when-the-numbers-finally-came-out-they-revea/