Industrial Strength

Water Is Still Too Much of an Afterthought for Data Centers

Data centers’ water demands can pose a significant drain in places that already don’t have enough water to go around.
Cabinets housing servers inside a data center.Photographer: Brent Lewin/Bloomberg
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Data centers still have a water problem, even if the hulking warehouses of servers aren’t in and of themselves the primary cause of it.