… [W]hile Angelenos must curtail their water use, California data centers won’t even be forced to disclose their water consumption. Earlier this month, Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have required the facilities, which can guzzle millions of gallons in a single day, to report their water usage. … The Data Center Coalition, an industry lobbying group, opposed the California disclosure bill—the one that Newsom then vetoed. In 2021, a city in the neighboring state of Oregon sued a local newspaper to prevent it from reporting on Google’s water use. … After the case was finally settled, news reports revealed that Google’s data centers accounted for more than a quarter of local water consumption.