{"id":60710,"date":"2026-09-13T21:56:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T21:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/watch-examining-us-officials-claim-that-data-centres-dont-use-water\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T21:56:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T21:56:45","slug":"watch-examining-us-officials-claim-that-data-centres-dont-use-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/watch-examining-us-officials-claim-that-data-centres-dont-use-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Examining US official&#8217;s claim that data centres &#8216;don&#8217;t use water&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick suggested that data centres don&#8217;t use water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to the International Energy Agency, a data centre in the United States uses around 2 million litres per day on average.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They have become a controversial topic for communities across the US in the run up to November&#8217;s midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Produced by Aisha Sembhi. Graphics by Mesut Ersoz.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/ced7yj7564zo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick suggested that data centres don&#8217;t use water. According to the International Energy Agency, a data centre in the United States uses around 2 million litres per day on average. They have become a controversial topic for communities across the US in the run up to November&#8217;s midterm elections. Produced by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[3297,1320,147,2758,3446,4273,1509,725],"class_list":["post-60710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reality-check","tag-centres","tag-claim","tag-data","tag-dont","tag-examining","tag-officials","tag-watch","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60712,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60710\/revisions\/60712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}