Columbus wants data centers to use recycled water instead of drinking water, but tech firms must foot the bill.

Research has found most people in England and Wales underestimate how much water they use each day, prompting calls to ...

Water used at the power plants that supply electricity to data centers can be much greater than the water used in the data ...

Hotter-running liquid cooling could reduce the need for evaporative cooling on-site. But the facilities’ appetite for ...

If you hang out in any even vaguely AI-skeptical parts of the Internet, you’ve probably stumbled on plenty of memes and posts premised on data centers’ insatiable thirst for water to power evaporative ...

Few situations can rival the frustration of finding yourself on a desolate road in the middle of nowhere with an overheating engine. You pull over as soon as you notice the gauge leaning dramatically ...

Cooling next-generation computer chips for AI requires either millions of gallons of water or huge amounts of electricity.

Cooling towers behind a data center near Katy help the supercomputer nicknamed “Bubba” stay cool. Texas is home to 464 data centers, with over 70 additional sites under development, and the increasing ...