{"id":1041700,"date":"2026-06-21T23:08:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T23:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1041700\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T23:08:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T23:08:26","slug":"fact-check-did-jeff-bezos-talk-about-water-being-prioritised-for-ai-over-humans-no-quote-is-fabricated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1041700\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact-Check: Did Jeff Bezos Talk About Water Being Prioritised for AI Over Humans? No, Quote Is Fabricated!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thequint.com\/opinion\/made-in-india-a-titan-story-review-watchmaking-history-politics-china\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a> founder Jeff Bezos spoke at the VivaTech conference in Paris, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thequint.com\/news\/breaking-news\/modi-macron-announce-new-india-france-targets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">France<\/a>, a statement, allegedly made during the event took to social media by storm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The claim: <\/strong>People shared posts claiming that Bezos had spoken about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thequint.com\/news\/webqoof\/viral-ai-generated-video-of-insects-swarming-over-vehicle-fuel-tanks-e20-false-claim-fact-check\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Artificial Intelligence<\/a> needing to be prioritised for water consumption over people, sparking outrage at this alleged statement.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>One of AI&#8217;s biggest criticisms has been about its use of freshwater for cooling its data centres and indirectly generating the massive amounts of electricity it runs on, as <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2304.03271\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">researchers found<\/a> in 2025.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After Amazon founder Jeff Bezos spoke at the VivaTech conference in Paris, France, a statement, allegedly made during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1041701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3163],"tags":[323,286895,324,1942,10111,16354,14554,7571,286897,36,286896,12767,1411,286894,6586,53,286898,16,15,72340,175830],"class_list":["post-1041700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-ai-water-consumption","tag-amazon","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-blue-origin","tag-data-centres","tag-fact-check","tag-fake-news","tag-fake-quote","tag-france","tag-human-water","tag-jeff-bezos","tag-paris","tag-prometheus","tag-resources","tag-technology","tag-the-print","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-vivatech","tag-webqoof"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116790618117266773","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1041701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}