Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick claimed Wednesday that data centers “don’t use water” despite the facilities’ significant water usage raising concerns for communities that may host them. In an ...

In arid states where water is running low, irrigation is close to the whole ballgame. One of the top reasons Americans cite for opposing data centers is their excessive water use. Yet the notion that ...

Data centers, the gigantic buildings that house the computing power behind the artificial intelligence boom, are wildly unpopular. A recent Gallup poll found that 7 in 10 Americans oppose one being ...

The artificial intelligence boom has inspired one of the largest infrastructure build-outs seen in decades: Tech firms are investing billions into constructing the data centers powering AI. This has ...

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Data centers are expected to use one-fifth of the electricity generated in the U.S. by 2035, four times that of today, according to a new report from BloombergNEF. A surge in AI compute will push data ...

Data centers for AI and other digital use cases are consuming increasing amounts of energy and water, complicating the jobs of policymakers and community planners looking to protect residents’ health ...

US golf courses use 2.08 billion gallons per day. Data centres use 449 million. But one is flat and the other is on an exponential curve. O’Leary compared data centre water use to golf courses. Golf ...

There are two competing schools of thought over just how water-intensive AI is. In one, the technology is horribly thirsty. Data centers will exacerbate droughts throughout the country and “drain the ...

As Alabama communities weigh proposals for new data centers, concerns about water consumption have become a flashpoint. Yet another major water user often escapes scrutiny: golf courses. A comparison ...

Microsoft MSFT0.92%increase; up pointing triangle, Google and Amazon AMZN 1.33%increase; up pointing triangle are among the tech companies spending an estimated $1 trillion on AI infrastructure this ...