LLMs and other AI guzzle millions of gallons of water each year for cooling, raising environmental concerns. But there are ...

In Indonesia, parts of a data center campus an hour outside Jakarta have been put on hold. In North Dakota, talks dragged on so long with a potential tenant that Microsoft lost exclusivity ...

A Bloomberg News analysis finds that roughly two thirds of new data centers built or in development in the US since 2022 are in places with high levels of water stress.

One of the poorest cities in Michigan has a proposed $3 billion data center as a potential lifeline — but environmentalists ...

Microsoft recently said it may "strategically pace" its data center plans ... worth reading closely what Walsh wrote about how things have changed. "In recent years, demand for our cloud and ...

The Mishawaka Common Council updated a 2014 ordinance to solidify Mishawaka Utilities' claim to provide water and sewer services to the planned Microsoft data center ... going to have to ...

That water is evaporated and does not necessarily return to the local watershed. Meanwhile, the biggest U.S. data center operators have pledged a green future. Scientists wonder how the tech ...

But planning commissioners in one Twin Cities community have cited demands on water infrastructure ... a reliable cooling system. Microsoft estimates that a data center that uses 40 megawatts ...