SPARTANBURG — The NorthMark data center on Pine Street estimates it will use 460,000 gallons of water daily — or almost 2,000 times the average residential customer — without posing a major strain on ...

Large data centers require significant amounts of water for cooling, which can strain local resources. Several proposals for large-scale data centers in Florida are facing public and governmental ...

Nevada remains one of the fastest-growing data center regions in the U.S., according to the Desert Research Institute, a Nevada environmental nonprofit research organization. The DRI released a ...

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David Pogue is a six-time Emmy winner for his stories on "CBS Sunday Morning," where he's been a correspondent since 2002. Pogue hosts the CBS News podcast "Unsung Science." He's also a New York Times ...

The Environmental Protection Agency said it wants to help boost water reuse strategies for companies to cool data centers that drive artificial intelligence. The EPA on Thursday announced an ...

Wisconsin is becoming a popular location for data centers due to its climate, water access, and affordable land. The majority of a data center's water footprint comes from the offsite electricity ...

Some cities and towns are investing in water and sewer lines to support data center growth. Who’s looking out for utility customers? Soaring electric bills are sparking grassroots anger at data ...

Louisiana Economic Development (LED) announced Feb. 23 that Amazon selected the state for $12 billion data center campuses in Caddo and Bossier Parish. LED announced Dec. 17, 2025, that West Feliciana ...

A real estate developer’s plan to build Florida’s first hyperscale data center — taking up more than 1,300 acres of land in Polk County — is humming along despite misgivings by some locals. Earlier ...

As Texas confronts decades of water mismanagement and growing demands for electricity from data centers, the state’s top utility regulator, Public Utility Commission Chairman Thomas Gleeson, told a ...

Wisconsin is becoming a hub for large-scale data centers due to its freshwater, cool climate, and low land costs. Data centers require enormous amounts of water and electricity for cooling, raising ...