Data center cooling could drive $10 billion to $58 billion in new waterworks

Data center cooling could drive $10 billion to $58 billion in new waterworks

The rapid growth of artificial intelligence and cloud computing is outpacing the ability of many community water systems to deliver large bursts of water on the hottest days of the year to keep the nation's data processing centers cool. A study posted to the arXiv preprint server by a UC Riverside research team in collaboration with Caltech found that community waterworks across the United States will need billions of dollars in new infrastructu…

Power and capital constraints may drive shift to modular cooling, smaller data centers

The wait for new large-scale data centers to connect to the power grid is approaching five years in major data center markets, according to a Feb. 26 report from JLL.