Commerce secretary dismissed data centers' water use as propaganda; regulators just halted one over its water use.

“They call your water worries propaganda right up until a federal panel cites water and electricity to shut the project down — that's not a coincidence, that's the paperwork catching up to what people already knew standing at their own tap. Meanwhile the man in the White House is out there telling whole towns they'll end up broke and backward if they don't hand a data center their water supply. Follow the water, not the talking point — the water's the one that stopped a bulldozer.”