{"id":1009020,"date":"2026-05-21T12:04:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T06:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1009020"},"modified":"2026-05-21T12:17:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T06:47:26","slug":"elon-musk-replies-to-post-claiming-data-centers-arent-stealing-your-water-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/21\/elon-musk-replies-to-post-claiming-data-centers-arent-stealing-your-water-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk replies to post claiming \u2018Data centers aren\u2019t stealing your water\u2019, says \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk has responded to a report debunking claims that data centers are excessively &#8220;stealing&#8221; water for AI cooling, noting that even a tripling of their usage by 2030 would equal just 8% of U.S. golf courses&#8217; annual water consumption. The conversation started when entrepreneur and investor Naval Ravikant recently shared a post writing \u201cThe latest IQ test involves data centers and water\u201d. News platform Pirate Wires replied to the post arguing data centers are not &#8220;stealing&#8221; water along with a link to December 2025 article titled \u201cThe Data Center Water Crisis Isn&#8217;t Real\u201d. Musk agreed with the argument and replied to the post writing \u2018True\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The conversation comes amid rising protests against data centres in the US. More than 11 states are reportedly planning to ban data centres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk has responded to a report debunking claims that data centers are excessively &#8220;stealing&#8221; water for AI cooling, noting that even a tripling of their usage by 2030 would equal just 8% of U.S. golf courses&#8217; annual water consumption. The conversation started when entrepreneur and investor Naval Ravikant recently shared a post writing \u201cThe latest IQ test involves data centers and water\u201d. News platform Pirate Wires replied to the post arguing data centers are not &#8220;stealing&#8221; water along with a link to December 2025 article titled \u201cThe Data Center Water Crisis Isn&#8217;t Real\u201d. Musk agreed with the argument and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009021,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009020\/revisions\/1009021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}