Texas lawmakers are calling for the data center industry to be more transparent after it was revealed during a legislative hearing in Austin that the majority of the state’s data centers are not reporting their water usage.
The Public Utility Commission of Texas sent out a survey earlier this year to collect information about water and energy usage among data centers and virtual currency mining facilities. Less than a third of the state’s 341 data centers responded to the survey.
“We’ve received responses from 28 unique companies representing 92 data centers and virtual currency mining facilities at various stages of operation across the state,” Chris Brown, the program manager for data analysis at the PUCT, told lawmakers during a hearing for the Texas House Committee on Natural Resources…