The environmental footprint of data centers already rivals some of the world's largest countries, according to a United ...

UN report warns AI data centres will consume water equal to the needs of 1.3 billion people by 2030.

In the face of widespread backlash to the AI data center buildout throughout the US, Google is touting its efforts to ...

Google has expanded its water stewardship projects in the midst of growing unrest over data centers' water usage.

Agriculture is the biggest water user in Arizona and the West. A new online water platform can offer data for better ...

Google bumps investment in Iowa water projects to $5.5 million as Iowa residents raise concerns about data center water use.

Artificial intelligence systems are thirsty, consuming as much as 500 milliliters of water – a single-serving water bottle – for each short conversation a user has with the GPT-3 version of OpenAI’s ...

Texas is creating a plan that acknowledges a future of tighter water supplies and rising demand. But the state's calculations ...