A typical data centre can use as much water as a city of 50,000 people. As more of these facilities are being built to meet rising demand, this water use is coming under scrutiny – particularly in areas of the US affected by the ongoing megadrought.
Most tech companies have water management programs that are rated as weak, and many won’t even disclose how much water they use, according to a new analysis.
This comes as much of the world has experienced sweltering heat waves and dried-up rivers amidst the growing impacts of climate change – and the western US is in the 22nd year of its worst drought in more than a millennium.
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