In communities grappling with the arrival of hyperscale data centers, a common reason residents cite in their opposition is the large amounts of water used to cool down their servers.
Tressie Kamp, assistant director of the Center for Water Policy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is working to find out just how much water is used by data centers.
In a recently published paper, “The Hidden Environmental Costs of Data Centers and AI,” Kamp investigates these water usage questions…