AI Data Centers’ Water Consumption Breaks 264 Billion Gallons in 2025 as Devastating Drought Hits Nearly 63% of U.S.
> Americans across multiple states are being urged to conserve water as drought conditions intensify, reservoirs shrink, and utilities issue increasingly urgent warnings. At the same time, a different kind of consumer is quietly demanding unprecedented amounts of water: artificial intelligence.
Let me translate the United Nations article regarding AI for you which "calls for urgent action to ensure that the technology develops within planetary limits".
Urgent = act now.
Planetary limits = you cannot exceed them.
But if *I* hijack *their* devices it's a "felony."

In this post we look under the hood of BrightData's SDK and how it turns ordinary consumer TVs into exit nodes of an enormous commercial, residential proxy network leveraged by the AI industry to scrape web data and train language learning models.
Welcome to the future