Food & Water Watch is a consumer advocacy nonprofit organization that has opposed industrial-scale data center development in Texas due to concerns about water consumption and environmental impacts on local water resources.
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In New Mexico, Food & Water Watch is pushing a 2027 moratorium, and Project Jupiter (Oracle and OpenAI) still drew opposition after pivoting to Bloom Energy fuel cells, with state filings showing emissions exceeding Albuquerque and Las Cruces combined.
Food & Water Watch is escalating criticism nationally, calling closed-loop cooling claims "clever advertising" and flagging xAI's Memphis facility withdrawing 30,000 gallons daily from a non-renewable aquifer with a graywater recycling project now on indefinite hold.