The most revealing fact about Google’s water use in The Dalles is not just the size of the number.

[cdarwin@c.im]

The most revealing fact about Google’s water use in The Dalles is not just the size of the number.

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/