COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency released a report finding that the demand for water is skyrocketing. The report cited competing needs between industrial centers and agriculture.
“We’re all individual entities, but we all exist in the same circumstance. And we all ought to be partnering together, working together,” said Jim Roberts, Executive Director of the Licking Regional Water District.
The more than 100 data centers in central Ohio guzzle up millions of gallons of water a day to cool equipment. Inside the Central Ohio Regional Water Study, data centers are predicted to need around 70 million gallons a day by 2040 with sites like Intel coming in.
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“The growth that was expected to come as a result of that with additional housing, additional support facilities for the Intel operation and lots of water was going to be needed by a lot of people for a lot of different reasons,” Roberts said…