A report released Tuesday by Western Resource Advocates warns of the need to be prepared for the amount of energy and water that data centers demand, especially in the dry interior West.

Amazon, Microsoft, and Google’s push to create data centers in some of the world’s driest areas threatens to deepen a looming water crisis. An investigation by SourceMaterial and The Guardian ...

A river with low levels of water flows under Highway 65 near Bondurant, Iowa. Iowa is suffering through a prolonged drought that heightens concerns about the water use by the state's data centers.

The largest data centers can guzzle millions of gallons of fresh water a day. Roughly 40% are located in the most water-stressed areas of the country, Business Insider found.

A 2024 federal report found data centers consumed about 4.4% of the nation’s electricity in 2023 and that could nearly triple to 12% by 2028. They can also be water-intensive buildings.

Google’s data centers in The Dalles use nearly three times more water than they did five years ago and now account for more than a quarter of all the city’s water use.

Aminu Abdullahi/TechRepublic Tech giants including Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are fuelling water consumption concerns as they build AI data centers in drought-prone regions, new investigations ...

By 2028, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory forecasts that U.S. data centers could use as much as 12% of the nation's electricity. The reason: generative AI. Since 2022, AI innovation by four ...

Data centers planned by Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook parent Meta Platforms need water as well as power to operate. The MN Legislature wants them to disclose how much.

Gary Hall of Expedient, which has been operating since 2021, points out a feature during a tour of the data center in Centennial on May 12, 2025. To the left of Hall is an empty space that is ...

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 location. This action comes ...

Data is also available via the three pillars of sustaining water resources (this includes data on the quantity and quality of surface and groundwater, water scarcity, and transboundary issues), ...