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San Antonio data centers guzzled 463 million gallons of water as area faced drought

AI Data Centers in Texas Used 463 Million Gallons of Water, Residents Told to Take Shorter Showers

New smart membrane mimics cell logic to purify water and extract metals efficiently | A trace of metal lets synthetic membranes control ion flow, paving the way for smarter filtration and extraction.

'Magic' moon tech: Chinese scientists find way to extract water, CO2, oxygen from lunar soil

A Big Problem With AI Data Centers: Water

Meta announces huge new data centers, but they could gobble up millions of gallons of water per day

'I can't drink the water.' - life next to a US data centre

Two-step system makes plastic from carbon dioxide, water and electricity

Ferrari is building a 100-foot yacht that can fly without an engine | The automaker is working on a 100-ft racing monohull yacht that promises to not only be quick on the water, but also to run exclusively on solar, wind, and kinetic energy.

Free as Air, Free as Water, Free as Knowledge (1992)

In the future, who protects the essentials, when profit decides who gets water?

Breakthrough non-toxic method developed to extract gold from e-waste | The water-based extraction process could revolutionize mining and recycling industries

How Data Centers Are Deepening the Water Crisis - The largest data centers can guzzle millions of gallons of fresh water a day. Roughly 40% of US ones, Business Insider found, are in the most water-stressed areas of the country.

Buried French Toxic-Waste 'Time-Bomb' Could Poison Drinking-Water For Millions in Europe

The pleasure of transforming sand to water in Sword of the Sea | Matt Nava interview

This paint ‘sweats’ to keep your house cool | Scientists have developed a paint that reflects sunlight and cools surfaces by slowly evaporating water.

I'm Wirecutter's water-quality expert. I don't filter my water

A new class of materials that can passively harvest water from air

The Source of "Water" (2020)

New physics-defying nanomaterial gathers water from air directly | The material works through capillary condensation, a phenomenon where water vapor turns into liquid within microscopic pores, even when the humidity is relatively low.