Sounds like misinformation, let's compare: "The clothing and textile industry uses roughly 170 times more."

The difference is even larger if you look at the state of the art: "As of November 2026, the state of the art is direct-to-chip liquid cooling combined with closed-loop dry coolers. This allows a data center to operate with essentially zero water consumed for cooling, even for high-density AI infrastructure."

You might not want to put an older/less efficient data center in a very dry area, but other than it seems quite reasonable.