{"id":1022618,"date":"2026-07-21T10:29:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T04:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1022618"},"modified":"2026-07-21T10:29:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T04:59:44","slug":"canadian-billionaire-kevin-oleary-on-ai-data-center-causing-water-scarcity-says-those-days-are-gone-now-it-is-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/21\/canadian-billionaire-kevin-oleary-on-ai-data-center-causing-water-scarcity-says-those-days-are-gone-now-it-is-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian billionaire Kevin O&#8217;Leary on AI data center causing water scarcity; says: Those days are gone, now it is like &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin O&#8217;Leary is not convinced that modern AI data centers are driving water scarcity in the way critics often claim. Speaking during a recent appearance on Glenn Beck&#8217;s radio show, the Canadian billionaire and &#8220;Shark Tank&#8221; investor argued that advances in cooling technology have significantly reduced water consumption, saying &#8220;those days are gone&#8221; and comparing today&#8217;s facilities to &#8220;a golf course&#8221; in terms of water use.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to his company\u2019s planned data center project in Utah, O&#8217;Leary said the first phase of the development, with 1.4 gigawatts of power capacity, would be &#8220;no different than a golf course&#8221; when it comes to water consumption. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin O&#8217;Leary is not convinced that modern AI data centers are driving water scarcity in the way critics often claim. Speaking during a recent appearance on Glenn Beck&#8217;s radio show, the Canadian billionaire and &#8220;Shark Tank&#8221; investor argued that advances in cooling technology have significantly reduced water consumption, saying &#8220;those days are gone&#8221; and comparing today&#8217;s facilities to &#8220;a golf course&#8221; in terms of water use. Referring to his company\u2019s planned data center project in Utah, O&#8217;Leary said the first phase of the development, with 1.4 gigawatts of power capacity, would be &#8220;no different than a golf course&#8221; when it [&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-1022618","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\/1022618","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=1022618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022619,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022618\/revisions\/1022619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}