> Are clearly just intended as illustrative, rather than a claim that 500,000 people in Sub-Sarah Africa will go without water as a result of AI data centres.

> Are clearly just intended as illustrative, rather than a claim that 500,000 people in Sub-Sarah Africa will go without water as a result of AI data centres. Let's be honest, it's meant to be emotionally manipulative. There are plenty of ways to be illustrative that would make more sense to the target audience, but invoking impoverished folks in Africa is meant to tug at the heart strings.