{
  "id": 11687,
  "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/oleary-data-centers-water-golf-courses-comparison",
  "title": "Kevin O’Leary says data centres use less water than golf courses. The numbers are more complicated.",
  "summary": "Kevin O’Leary is making the golf course argument again. The “Shark Tank” investor, whose 40,000-acre Stratos data centre project in Utah sparked protests and a governor’s executive order, told Business Insider that AI data centres consume far less water than America’s golf courses. The comparison is technically correct today. The Golf Course Superintendents Association of […] This story continues at The Next Web",
  "authors": "Alina Maria Stan",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "regulation,environment,finance-investment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "us",
  "published_at": "2026-07-18T12:44:17.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-19T05:10:57.429Z",
  "source_slug": "x-the-next-web-ai",
  "source_name": "The Next Web AI",
  "source_homepage": "https://thenextweb.com/topic/artificial-intelligence",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/11687",
  "original_url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/oleary-data-centers-water-golf-courses-comparison",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}