Data center proposals are facing public opposition across Kansas and other states. Critics cite massive water and electricity usage, while supporters point to economic growth. Opposition to data ...

If you hang out in any even vaguely AI-skeptical parts of the Internet, you’ve probably stumbled on plenty of memes and posts premised on data centers’ insatiable thirst for water to power evaporative ...

Pipes carrying reclaimed water for cooling at an Amazon Web Services data center. (AWS Photo) Amazon Web Services on Thursday announced that efforts to curb water use at its data centers have made it ...

Amazon finally released annual water usage data and claims it’s actually more efficient than the others. Amazon finally released annual water usage data and claims it’s actually more efficient than ...

Amazon said its global data-center operations withdrew about 2.5 billion gallons of water in 2025, as data center companies around the world face growing scrutiny over the environmental impact of ...

Amazon data centers primarily use outside air for cooling but switch to water-based evaporative cooling on hot days. The company is designing servers to run at higher temperatures, reducing the need ...

Amazon.com Inc. said its data centers used 2.5 billion gallons of water worldwide last year, or about 5% of the amount metro Seattle consumes annually. The world’s largest cloud-computing company said ...

Data centers are needed. But where should we put them? Our military needs them for precision and resilient systems and equipment. And they are needed for our AI usage in business, economics and the ...

Data centers are massive facilities filled with computers and networking equipment that power much of modern life, including streaming services, social media, banking, cloud storage, artificial ...

Data centers are typically facilities used to house and run computer systems. A data center is a facility that houses and runs computer systems. Inside the facilities, there are typically multiple ...

The developer of a planned data center in Fort Meade says the facility will use a closed-loop cooling system requiring only 50,000 gallons of water daily. An academic expert on industrial cooling ...

At its WWDC 2026 event, Apple introduced a host of tools designed to put parents back in control over how their kids are using the iPhone. This includes features that let parents decide who a child ...