Electricity enables AI growth, but water constraints are emerging as a decisive factor in data center siting and approval.

Power plant managers know that optimizing cooling water operations will improve efficiency. Using an integrated approach that combines advanced chemistry, digital technologies, such as deposit sensing ...

Liquid cooling can require intensive water use, with a 1-MW data center using up to 25.5 million liters of water per year. Today’s data centers easily reach into the hundreds of megawatts, with ...

Without cooling, data centres fall over. In November, a cooling system failure at a data centre in the US sent financial ...

Electrostatic droplet capture system installed on an HVAC condenser. (Credit: Infinite Cooling) As a common feature with thermal power plants, cooling towers enable major water savings compared to ...

Surging use of AI has led to a frenzy of construction activity to build new data centres, particularly in the U.S. Estimates ...

Australia has more than 250 data centres and more in the pipeline, prompting experts to warn against using drinking water to cool servers.

How the AI industry uses water and how that impacts an increasingly parched world is more complicated than people think.

Leo S. Lo does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Many welcome recent US AI expansion plans into the UK. However, alongside jubilation about billions in inward investment come troubling reservations about the environmental cost of the 95 new UK data ...

Names and labels are difficult. Take this “3D Printed” water-cooling loop by [Visual Thinker] on YouTube. It undeniably uses ...