Editorial: Meta data center is a bright spot in Louisiana’s economic future. But it’s water use plan highlights the need for ...

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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 ...

Data centers require massive volumes of water to operate, and the growing use of artificial intelligence means more of these centers are popping up in water-abundant regions such as the Great Lakes.

Meta's Louisiana data center can use more than 23 million gallons of water per day, or 8.4 billion gallons per year, ...

A TechUK report that claimed datacentres in England use less water than previously thought has been accused of containing “methodological flaws” designed to appease tech lobbying in the UK. Foxglove, ...

Surging use of AI has led to a frenzy of construction activity to build new data centres, particularly in the U.S. Estimates ...

There's big buzz around data centers, the massive complexes that tech companies are building across the nation, including in Wisconsin. The companies use the centers to process, store and transmit ...

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 ...

In June 2025, Amazon announced it was increasing the number of data centers that use reclaimed water. There are currently 20 data centers using treated sewage water for cooling, and by 2030, Amazon ...

By 2050, data centers in the Washington region could use up to 22.2 million gallons of water per day, an intergovernmentl ...

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