The POWER Act requires data centers to produce plans for water use, scarcity and sustainability. It also requires data ...
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. 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 ...
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 ...
The two proposed Lancaster city data centers’ combined daily water usage will average less than the equivalent of 156 households using the Lancaster County average of 257 gallons per day, according to ...
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 ...