Data centers’ impact on water resources is one of the biggest concerns about the facilities. Here's what was discussed at an ...

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

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

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

A proposed data center in the Imperial Valley would need 750,000 gallons of water a day. Satisfying the thirst of 24 more ...

Three AI data centers are coming to Louisiana, and may use large quantities of water, energy and land. Here's how communities ...

As data centers rapidly expand across the Mountain West, researchers say a key question is getting harder to answer: how much water are they actually using?

A regulatory loophole could leave state planners without a clear picture of how much water the 30 data centers planned around the Ocmulgee River basin plan to use from the waterway. “As far as I’m ...

ST. LOUIS — As data center projects have popped up across the St. Louis region, driven by the growth of industrial-scale computing for artificial intelligence, one of the primary concerns raised by ...

Tucker’s family has owned a cattle farm in Lampasas, Texas, for four generations. In Texas, cattle prices are linked to rainfall, Tucker explained. In particularly bad drought years, like 2021-2024, ...

Temple Mayor Tim Davis issued an open letter Wednesday addressing resident concerns over data centers. The social media ...