Data centers’ impact on water resources is one of the biggest concerns about the facilities. Here's what was discussed at an ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 2024 report from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory estimated that in 2023, U.S. data centers consumed 17 billion gallons ...
Wisconsin is emerging as a hub for data center development because of fresh water, a cooler climate and affordable land. What ...
The rapid growth of artificial intelligence and cloud computing is outpacing the ability of many community water systems to deliver large bursts of water on the hottest days of the year to keep the ...
As data centers rapidly expand across the Mountain West, researchers say a key question is getting harder to answer: how much ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb. 19—Water use is one of the most commonly cited concerns with data centers nationwide, but just how much water data centers ...
Large facilities can use millions of gallons daily for cooling, much of it lost to evaporation. Local leaders and utilities ...
Quietly but quickly, Phoenix has become one of the nation’s hotspots for a booming economic and technological phenomenon of late-stage capitalism: data centers – the boxy, sprawling farms of wire and ...
WASHINGTON — Story from The Conversation by Peyton McCauley, Water Policy Specialist, Sea Grant UW Water Science-Policy Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Melissa Scanlan, Professor and ...