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Water Use — The National Record Index
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Records raise questions about Georgia largest data center and its water use
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Records raise questions about Georgia’s largest data center and its water use
Records raise questions about Georgia’s largest data center and its water use Atlanta News First
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Google's Nebraska data centers used 732 million gallons as drought fears mount
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Microsoft Shares Data Center Campus Power and Water Usage
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Rising chip temperatures and the transformation of data center cooling
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Why a New Vertiv Plant Matters for America’s Data Centers
Vertiv, a top supplier of data center power and cooling gear, is expanding manufacturing — and that ripples straight into the US buildout.
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Nevada’s Data Center Fight: Why the Heat Isn’t Cooling Off
An opinion piece says Nevadans remain frustrated with data center growth, despite the governor's stance. Here's why that tension keeps building nationwide.
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Vertiv, a data center power and cooling infrastructure company, established its first large-scale pl..
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The Dalles spent 13 months fighting to keep Google’s water use secret — then records showed the data center campus consumed roughly a third of the Oregon city’s supply
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In depth: Data center water use
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Questions arise over data centers’ water use, Illinois considers mandating water-efficient cooling systems
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Potential Dubuque data center could require 3 million gallons of water, city seeks public input
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Closed-loop cooling systems: Sustainable data center future
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MHI Demonstrates Energy Efficiency Improvements through Cooling Optimization in Operational Data Center
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By water use, Google's Botetourt site would be its 8th largest data center complex in the world
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Michigan analysts detail data center water use, energy concerns
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El Paso Water reassures public on Meta data center’s water usage
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Columbus-area data centers used 1.2 billion gallons of water in a year
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Meta data center water discharges suspended after contaminating the city's reclamation water supply with bacterium — system offline for months for cleaning, closed-loop cooling system purge spread rare metal-resistant bacteria in Cheyenne’s water system
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Amazon data center water usage hits 2.5 billion gallons in 2025
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City Council to hear AI Data Center Appeal on July 16, following new Idaho law on water usage
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Nvidia says it can cut data center water use. The AI boom has a bigger problem
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Data Center Liquid Cooling Manifolds Market worth $6 . 33 billion by 2033 - Exclusive Report by MarketsandMarkets
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Beyond Binary: Data Center Water Use Isn’t All Or Nothing
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NTT Data , Daikin Start AI Data Center Cooling Test in July
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Data Center Cooling CDU Pumps Market worth $1 . 84 billion by 2032 - Exclusive Report by MarketsandMarkets™
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Could a new Denver data center use up to 800,000 gallons of water a day?
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Georgia Urges AI Data Centers to Cut Water Usage as Droughts Rage
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Most data centers wont share data about water use with Texas lawmakers
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Sunbury Amazon data center would be Del-Co’s biggest water user
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Texas asked data centers to report their water use. Most of them didn't respond
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Texas House Hearing Highlights Lack of Information on Data Center Water Use
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AI Data Center Water Use Is Not Solved: Nvidia’s Cooling Fix Stops at the Walls
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Spanberger encourages water conservation during drought, while data centers use millions of gallons a day
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Texas lawmakers consider data center water use and resource impacts
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New regulations beef up data centers' required water use reporting
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How Virginia data centers could reduce water use and environmental impacts with new technology
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NVIDIA's 113°F cooling system brings data center water use near zero
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Most Texas data centers aren't complying with a Texas law to report water usage
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Texas lawmakers take up data center water use concerns
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Nvidia Says Rubin AI Platform Uses Liquid Cooling to Cut Data Center Water Usage
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NVIDIA makes bold water usage claim regarding its AI - housing data centres
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State lawmakers demand answers on Texas data centers’ water use
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Texas lawmakers question data center water use, cite lack of data
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As Texas weighs data center water use, a Henderson County ranch fights a project across the road
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Lawmakers discuss data center water usage
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Nvidia’s New Cooling System Cuts Data Center Water Use to Near Zero—But Not AI’s
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'100% Liquid Cooling': Nvidia Unveils Tech That Could Nearly Eliminate Data Center Water Use
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Most data centers ignore Texas surveys about their water use
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Data centers in Texas: State and city leaders squabble over water usage
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Nvidia Says a New AI Cooling System Addresses Data Center Water Concerns
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Drought-Ravaged Georgia Asks Data Centers to Cut Water Use
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Nvidia unveils warm water closed loop cooling that eliminates onsite data center water use
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Nvidia wants to cut data center water use, but that's not the same as fixing AI's water problem
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Amazon's Data Centers Reportedly Used Over 2.5 Billion Gallons Of Water In Just One Year
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Amid statewide drought conditions, data centers face same restrictions as all water customers
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Nvidia Touts ‘100% Reduction in Water Use’ With New Data Center Design
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DW News. . AI needs data centers. But what do people get out of them? From energy and water use to environmental concerns, the debate is growing. #dwdigital
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Why Data Centers Still Rely on Evaporative Cooling
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Managing data centre energy and water use in the AI era
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