With the increasing global demand for data storage and the growing scarcity of water resources, data centres will come under heightened scrutiny.
More than 30% of the world’s data centres are located in the United States. In Oregon a local paper fought to unearth information revealing that a Google data centre uses over a quarter of the city’s water. In New Mexico, farmers protested a decision by the city to allow a Meta data centre to move into the area.
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