Water UK told members of Parliament that government water forecasts exclude data-center demand while national policy seeks more artificial-intelligence capacity, the Guardian reported Tuesday, identifying an omission in planning rather than water delivered to a facility. [1]

The warning follows the July 20 account that treated $6.3 billion in estimated PJM capacity-auction costs as forecast attribution rather than energized load, approved allocation or a household bill, with both stories placing an infrastructure estimate before operation.

Water is a different input, but the evidentiary sequence remains the same because a sector forecast is not a project request, a request is not a permit and a permit is not a meter reading, leaving the Guardian report to establish Water UK's stated planning concern rather than those later stages. [1]

The trade body's primary briefing returned an access block during research, so reported liters and facility counts cannot carry this brief, while project locations, cooling systems, wastewater arrangements, utility agreements and regional supply costs remain unrecovered and no record proves that data centers caused hosepipe restrictions, displaced household supply or received priority.

A specific July 21 search for UK data-center water demand yielded no verified X post, leaving scarcity and AI-growth reactions unobserved through that retrieval path, while the planning omission deserves correction and its consequences still require project-level pipes, permits, meters, utility operations and allocation records rather than proximity between two public anxieties.

-- DARA OSEI, London