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In southern New Mexico, water is a precious resource that touches everything. It touches families and businesses. It touches agriculture and the food we eat. It touches public health and safety. And ...

Australia’s data centre rush now rivals the mining boom. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman last week said Australia could become a “data centre capital of the world”. This would come at an ...

In spring 2026, social media users spread a rumor that a new data center in Utah would use about 16 billion gallons of water a year and that the center would be 2.7 times the size of Manhattan. Utah ...

Artificial intelligence systems rely on powerful servers inside massive AI data centers that generate significant heat during operation, which directly contributes to rising water usage. As workloads ...

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — Google is making a $10 million investment into Texas in the form of a water impact fund. This pledge comes as Google has numerous data center projects underway in the Lone Star ...

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One argument often used to quell concerns about the rising energy and resource demand of data centres is that artificial intelligence (AI) models will need less in the future as they improve and ...

Researchers designed an energy-efficient device that produces drinking water from seawater using an evaporation process driven largely by the sun. Researchers at the University of Waterloo have ...

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