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flag Amazon considered hiding its true water usage from data centers ahead of its 2022 "Water Positive" pledge, sparking transparency concerns.

flag A leaked 2023 internal Amazon document reveals the company considered concealing the full extent of its data centers’ water usage, particularly secondary water use tied to electricity generation, ahead of its 2022 “Water Positive” campaign. flag Executives debated disclosing total consumption—estimated at 105 billion gallons in 2021, far exceeding the 7.7 billion gallons of primary use reported—due to reputational concerns. flag Amazon has never publicly reported its full water footprint, unlike competitors Microsoft and Google. flag The company called the document “obsolete” and inaccurate but did not clarify what has changed. flag Critics say the omission undermines transparency, despite Amazon’s pledge to return more water than it uses by 2030.

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