Atmospheric rivers bring heavy rain and floods, but if they don’t come around, it could mean drought. A new global map ...

AM Local Time Ends Wednesday, August 26, 2026, at 12:00 AM Local Time Arrokuda and Cramorant make their Pokémon GO debuts ...

Microsoft MSFT0.19%increase; up pointing triangle, Google and Amazon AMZN-0.69%decrease; down pointing triangle are among the tech companies spending an estimated $1 trillion on AI infrastructure this ...

Exclusive: £75m publicity drive will ask people to treat water as precious resource and cut daily use by 28 litres The biggest ever campaign to encourage the public to reduce their water use will ...

Microsoft announced Wednesday that over the past two decades, it has become dramatically more efficient in its use of water to cool data centers, slashing its consumption rate by 90% compared to ...

Nvidia just announced a warm-water cooling system that it says can dramatically reduce the amount of water a data center uses — eliminating “pretty much all water usage” inside the data center, ...

We almost always focus on just Lake Powell and Lake Mead, but there are 46 reservoirs in the Colorado River Basin. This new paper by Jack Schmidt and the usual suspects looks at the state and trends ...

If you hang out in any even vaguely AI-skeptical parts of the Internet, you’ve probably stumbled on plenty of memes and posts premised on data centers’ insatiable thirst for water to power evaporative ...

Google says a typical AI query uses five drops of water. OpenAI's Sam Altman describes a similar amount — about one-fifteenth of a teaspoon. But another viral estimate says a short email written with ...

In the waters of the Des Moines and Raccoon Rivers. some of the highest nitrate levels in the country. You're always going to measure nitrate in the water throughout the year. David Swartney is *** ...

Artificial intelligence systems rely on powerful servers inside massive AI data centers that generate significant heat during operation, which directly contributes to rising water usage. As workloads ...

TEXAS, USA — Google says it is investing $10 million into water resources in Texas. The tech giant announced a water impact fund and new pledges to use water resources responsibly to operate its ...