Water stored in Lake Marathon and in the other three reservoirs supplying Athens has dropped from more than 1 billion cubic meters in 2022 to about 390 million cubic meters.

Meta has detailed for the first time the large amount of water its artificial intelligence data center being built in rural northeast Louisiana will require, estimating the average daily use for the ...

In the yard behind her home, to the south of Laredo, Luz Castillo keeps a ’93 Chevy pickup in a tin-roofed shed. The truck has one job, and one job only: It hauls water. The pickup bed is filled with ...

As Ohio's data center boom continues, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency is considering a permit to allow new data centers without access to central sewerage systems to dispose of water used to ...

To provide a framework for understanding data center water use, The Green Grid has established a practical metric—Water Usage Effectiveness (WUE), measured in liters per kilowatt-hour of IT load, and ...

ROME, 13th December, 2025 (WAM) -- Renewable water availability per person has continued to decline by a further 7% over the past decade, while pressure on already scarce freshwater resources is ...

Fears about AI data centers’ water use have exploded. Experts say the reality is far more complicated than people think. When I called him to talk more about AI and water, Masley emphasized that he’s ...

Those pushing for a controversial new AI data center in Chandler — a cohort that includes paid not-technically-a-lobbyist Kyrsten Sinema — have made big promises about how it would save the city water ...

The effort is drawing bipartisan support and is expected to come up again next year as officials grapple with the artificial intelligence boom’s side effects. States facing drought and dwindling ...

In an unprecedented move, Iran is looking to import water as an official strategy to confront one of the worst water crises in its modern history, Energy Minister Abbas Aliabadi announced on December ...

This paper examines the macro-criticality of water resources in the context of climate change. It summarizes the past and future trends of water scarcity and droughts and proposes a framework to ...