A giant data center proposed for Dale Earnhardt's family property has drawn fierce opposition from residents of Mooresville.

"I can't live in my home with half of my home functioning and no water," Ms Morris says. "I can't drink the water." She ...

A retiree in rural Georgia has accused Meta's new AI data center, which is situated around 1,200 feet from her home, is polluting her water. As the BBC reports, the resident, Beverly Morris ...

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.

The heaviest user by far is Google’s data center in Henderson, consuming 352 million gallons of water in 2024, according to data obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

The northern Denver data center, once completed in the Elyria-Swansea neighborhood, could use a maximum of 805,000 gallons of water a day for cooling — the same as 16,100 Denverites’ average ...

OXFORD, United Kingdom, July 24, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- New research from GWI has found that onsite water consumption for data center cooling is forecast to increase by just over 50% by 2030 ...

Amazon data center in the Portland, Ore., area in 2022. (AWS Photo / Noah Berger) Amazon Web Services is more than halfway to its 2030 goal of being “water positive” — meaning it replenishes ...

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In Georgia, where the climate is humid and water is relatively abundant, the state has become a magnet for data center development. Yet this abundance comes with consequences.

"I'm afraid to drink the water." Tainted Water A retiree in rural Georgia has accused Meta's new AI data center, which is situated around 1,200 feet from her home, of polluting her water.