Data centers’ water use is hard to track, raising concerns in the drought-prone West, study finds

from KUNR Public Radio: Local News Feed · host Kaleb Roedel

As data centers rapidly expand across the Mountain West, researchers say a key question is getting harder to answer: how much water are they actually using?

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