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Here's your afternoon, TNB Tech Minute, for Thursday, June 11th. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal.

Amazon said its global data centers used approximately 2.5 billion gallons of water last year.

That's according to a blog post published today that outlined the tech giant's water efficiency efforts. Amazon said despite expanding its data center footprint,

water usage at company-operated sites decreased by 2% from 2024. Data center companies have been

facing growing scrutiny over the environmental impact of AI. Amazon said its data center's

usage of water per kilowatt hour of electricity was more efficient than the

industry average in 2025, and that some of its data centers used treated wastewater rather than drinking

water. The company said by the end of this decade, it will return more water to communities

than its direct operations consume. Meanwhile, Amazon's billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, said he expects AI to create a labor

shortage, rejecting fears that the tech will put humans out of work.

The remarks come as Bezos launches a new AI business called Prometheus.

Prometheus plans to build an artificial general engineer

that can design and manufacture complex physical products such as jet engines. Bezos will co-lead

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