When it comes to the US Empire and its crapitalist ways - never underestimate its ability to divide and conquer.

In this case, different movements/efforts.

https://www.blackagendareport.com/big-green-big-tech-bigger-environmental-racism-how-certain-white-led-environmental-groups-are

Hint: Race is a factor. Money is another.

But let’s say that these Big Green groups are able to rationalize the implications for water resources associated with mineral extraction - they still have to contend with profligate water use of data centers in order for them to function.  According to California’s Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory, data centers, nationally, are using approximately 627 million gallons of water per day for consumptive use - water that isn’t returned to its source.  To put this in perspective, the roughly 150.4 billion gallons of water expected to be consumed by data centers over a five year period in the Great Lakes region alone is equivalent to the annual water withdrawals of 4.6 million U.S. households, which is more than 2.5 times the number of households in Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland and Grand Rapids combined. As such, for Big Green groups to be so cavalier about an issue like water, a resource that is absolutely necessary to sustain the functions of the planet that, in turn, sustain all life as we know it, is reckless, irresponsible,  and perniciously close to the same attitude held by many polluters who view natural resources as nothing more than instruments to increase profit. And the fact that the United Nations has declared that the world has entered an era of “global water bankruptcy” accentuates how derelict many of these environmental organizations are by willfully overlooking the salient issue of data centers and water usage.