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AWS sued for allegedly misleading claims about water use at Virginia datacenters

Ex-staffer accuses Amazon's Virginia datacenters of quietly guzzling H20 all year round, despite 'water positive' PR push

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Dan Robinson20h ago5 min readenNews

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