How a lot water do knowledge centres use? Most tech firms will not say

As extra knowledge centres are being constructed to satisfy rising demand, their water use is coming beneath scrutiny – notably in areas of the US affected by the continuing megadrought

By Jeremy Hsu

Most tech firms have water administration packages which are rated as weak, and lots of received’t even disclose how a lot water they use, in response to a brand new evaluation. This comes as a lot of the world has skilled sweltering warmth waves and dried-up rivers amidst the rising impacts of local weather change – and the western US is within the twenty second 12 months of its worst drought in additional than a millennium.