{"id":651232,"date":"2026-06-21T22:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T22:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/651232\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T22:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T22:38:12","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.newsbeep.com\/uk\/651232\/","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>The claim: 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<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","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":651233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,219116,2151,733,4308,4355,13196,102006,23132,219118,819,219117,8897,13772,82570,6382,86,219119,56,54,55,219115,102005],"class_list":["post-651232","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-artificialintelligence","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-unitedkingdom","tag-vivatech","tag-webqoof"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}