Wisconsin is emerging as a hub for data center development because of fresh water, a cooler climate and affordable land. What ...

Lawmakers emphasized the need for transparency about how much water data centers use to cool their facilities at the final of ...

A new report shows that AI Data Centers are coming to the Midwest, and they could put immense amounts of stress on the Great Lakes’ water supply. The report estimates that 150 billion gallons of water ...

As data centers rapidly expand across the Mountain West, researchers say a key question is getting harder to answer: how much ...

Data center operators and utilities often do not disclose facility-specific energy and water usage data. The Republic built a database to estimate data centers' energy capacity by analyzing air ...

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 ...

Large facilities can use millions of gallons daily for cooling, much of it lost to evaporation. Local leaders and utilities ...

Water powers our lives. It feeds our crops, keeps factories running, generates electricity, and fills our taps. But until now, no one had a clear, national picture of how much water we're using—and ...

Wisconsin's data centers say they will use closed-loop cooling, but concerns rise over indirect water use, undisclosed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Colorado River flows through Ruby and Horsethief canyons at the Colorado-Utah border near Mack, in 2023. (William Woody for ...

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 ...