Amazon, Microsoft, and Google’s push to create data centers in some of the world’s driest areas threatens to deepen a looming ...

Endless emails, map requests, web searches, and everything else we do online requires the use of energy-hungry, water-guzzling data centers. For Google, that enormous thirst for water is causing ...

Questions about the quantities of water needed to keep data centers cool has become another point of contention in the debate ...

Questions about the quantities of water needed to keep data centers cool has become another point of contention in the debate over the industry’s explosive growth in Minnesota.

U.S. AI may use as much electricity as 28 million households, with serious consequences for our water and climate.

The state measure would put fees in place, compelling data centers to pay for conservation. It would also require a 65 ...