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The Hidden Bottleneck of AI Data Centers: Water

Electricity enables AI growth, but water constraints are emerging as a decisive factor in data center siting and approval.
The data center boom continues in Wisconsin. But what are data centers, and why are people upset about them coming to our state?
For nearly as long as modern computing has been around, so have the boxy, unassuming data centers that host servers and networking equipment. But the vast capacity needed for the artificial ...
Learn how we’re minimizing water use at our data centers and working toward our goal of becoming water positive in 2030.
The demand for data centers is growing faster than our ability to mitigate their skyrocketing economic and environmental costs Amber X. Chen - AAAS Mass Media Fellow As the demand for A.I. increases, ...
Uptime is a critical metric for any data center, often quoted as "99.9999% uptime." However, most operators typically refer to this percentage as the availability of equipment rather than its actual ...
In the wake of the peace brokered by Donald Trump and after more than a decade of investment by the Armenian diaspora, Armenia is emerging as a small but formidable geopolitical hub, with a strategic ...
Celestica has transformed into a design-centric platform integrator, occupying key control points in AI data center infrastructure and rack-scale integration. CLS benefits from surging hyperscaler ...
Meta's Louisiana data center can use more than 23 million gallons of water per day, or 8.4 billion gallons per year, ...
Equinix (EQIX) gets my prior buy rating from this summer reaffirmed, agreeing with the Wall St buy consensus today. Upside could be driven by macro demand for data centers due to AI and cloud needs, ...
The Bay Area is the runaway leader in artificial intelligence. But data centers, the physical architecture needed for AI ...