CHICAGO, IL — Great Lakes states should swiftly adopt new policies to protect freshwater resources from overuse by data centers, a new nonprofit report concludes. Within five years, huge data centers ...

With support from the Global Water Security & Sanitation Partnership (GWSP), the World Bank has just launched the World Bank Water Data Portal. For the first time ever, a curated list of water data ...

The physics of mixing water layers — an interplay of wind, climate and more — makes lakes work. When it stops, impacts can ...

While energy consumption of data centers steal the headlines, the water-intensive nature of their operations are overlooked. Bluefield research: water consumption by global data centers (including ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) data centres are set to dramatically increase global water consumption in the coming years, according to a report by Morgan Stanley. The report forecasts that by 2028, ...

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In August 2019, the Arizona Municipal Water Users Association built a 16-foot pyramid of jugs in its main entrance in Phoenix. The goal was to show residents of this desert region how much water they ...

With its affordable land and modest electricity rates, Iowa has become a magnet for data centers for some of the world's tech giants. Tech companies also like Iowa's wind power, which gives it the ...

As California's population grows, the pressure increases on its finite natural resources. And one of those, water, is the subject of some concern, with the increase in data generation in the state.