{
  "id": 6101568,
  "title": "AI data centers are less thirsty now, tech giants say",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/07/ai-data-centers-are-less-thirsty-now-tech-giants-say",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-07T04:18:36.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Economic Times Tech",
    "slug": "economic-times-tech",
    "url": "https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/ai-data-centers-are-less-thirsty-now-tech-giants-say/articleshow/133862384.cms"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Data centers are running into a wall of public anger in the United States over their thirst for water and power. \"There are incentives,\" Ren said, but they have more to do with public relations amid the growing backlash to data centers across the United States.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Free Malaysia Today",
        "title": "AI data centres are less thirsty now, say tech giants",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/07/ai-data-centres-are-less-thirsty-now-say-tech-giants",
        "published": "2026-09-07T01:47:35.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Malay Mail",
        "title": "AI boom pushes tech giants to cut data centres’ thirst for water",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/07/ai-boom-pushes-tech-giants-to-cut-data-centres-thirst-for-water",
        "published": "2026-09-07T13:00:00.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}