He’s kinda wrong. The facts he states are correct. Others are clearly exaggerating or making mistakes. But he jumps from that to the incorrect conclusion that “data centers don’t use water”.
There are water accounting games on how much water is used for the electricity - Masley is right about that. But he ignores the water actually used to cool data centers, which is about 1/10th that. (About 25 billion gallons per year vs the 200B misstated as consumed during electric generation.) 25B gallons is actually still quite small in the big picture, but it’s growing very fast. And in the local regions where these data centers are built that can be a huge strain on the water supply.
So I would say Masley is biased in his reporting, and should be read critically. But on infrasound I think he’s right.
There are water accounting games on how much water is used for the electricity - Masley is right about that. But he ignores the water actually used to cool data centers, which is about 1/10th that. (About 25 billion gallons per year vs the 200B misstated as consumed during electric generation.) 25B gallons is actually still quite small in the big picture, but it’s growing very fast. And in the local regions where these data centers are built that can be a huge strain on the water supply.
So I would say Masley is biased in his reporting, and should be read critically. But on infrasound I think he’s right.