Water security
Reliable access to enough clean water for people, farms and industry, and competition between those uses.
281 claims·24 news stories
Whether the water used to cool AI data centers is a significant strain on local supplies, or whether it is small compared with agriculture and other industries.
Reliable access to enough clean water for people, farms and industry, and competition between those uses.
281 claims·24 news stories
Large computing facilities built to train and run artificial intelligence models, and the public questions they raise about electricity, water and land. Fought locally through zoning and utility rates, and nationally through energy policy, grid capacity and federal support for the industry.
50 claims·83 news stories