Zankore's AI factory: Can Central Java afford the water cost?

A corporate consortium plans to build a large artificial intelligence data center in Central Java. The plant could consume millions of liters of cooling water daily in an area facing drought and sinking land. Environmental planners and policymakers must decide how to regulate shared water networks under high industrial demand.

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