A recent peer reviewed study reveals that AI systems in 2025 consumed between 312.5 and 764.6 billion liters of water, which is equivalent to the global bottled water industry's annual usage, primarily for cooling data centers powering models the AI. This massive demand arises from the evaporative cooling needed to manage the heat from intensive computations, highlighting AI's hidden environmental toll amid surging adoption. The same research estimates AI's carbon footprint at 32.6 to 79.7 milli