Water and energy use is growing as data centers are built across the Midwest and Great Plains

Water and energy use is growing as data centers are built across the Midwest and Great Plains

Data centers are expanding across the central U.S. to meet growing demand for artificial intelligence. That's raising concerns about growing energy demand and freshwater usage. The post Water and energy use is growing as data centers are built across the Midwest and Great Plains appeared first on WPR.

University of Michigan data center project raising environmental concerns

Residents are worried that a new $1.2 billion data center will contaminate a nearby river and potentially raise electricity rates.

There's plenty of water for data centers

I’ve spent my whole life in the urban northeast, which is both soggy and light on water-intensive economic activity, so I haven’t spent a lot of time thinking about water use or water scarcity. But large parts of the United States are arid or support water-intensive industries or both. Also, a lot of policy controversies relate to AI these days, as AI involves a lot of data centers, and data centers typically use water for cooling purposes. And …

Energy use grows as data centers are built in the Midwest - The Iola Register

Data centers are expanding across the central U.S. to meet growing demand for artificial intelligence. That’s raising concerns about growing energy demand and freshwater usage. In rural Dane County, Wisconsin, a developer wants to build a data center campus with 15 buildings over the next decade. Texas will serve as the home base for Stargate, a $500 billion effort to build artificial intelligence infrastructure, with 10 data centers under const…