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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.
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.
Overuse threatens to dry up this critical American artery, which sustains people from Denver to Los Angeles and feeds the crops of California's Imperial Valley and Arizona's Yuma region — two of the world's most productive agricultural areas. Documents reviewed by Business Insider show that some of these large data centers, football-field-size warehouses filled with computer servers that power the artificial intelligence revolution, could each demand millions of gallons of water a day, enough for tens of thousands of Americans. As part of a state conservation program, it helped fund compensation for the Colorado River Indian Tribes to leave 10,000 acres of farmland unplanted, a company report said, even though the practice of fallowing has fallen out of favor in the desert.
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