Data center water use not sustainable in increasingly dry American West

Data center water use not sustainable in increasingly dry American West

The Colorado River flows through Ruby and Horsethief canyons at the Colorado-Utah border near Mack, in 2023. (William Woody for Colorado Newsline)After years of failed negotiations between the states and decades of negligent water management, we now have just months for federal officials to decide how to divide up the ever-shrinking flow of the Colorado River between the seven river basin states that share it — and the 40 million people relying …

Data Center Water Use Not Sustainable in Drought-Stricken American West – Pagosa Daily Post News Events & Video for Pagosa Springs Colorado

The players might be different but the results are the same: the overextension of our resources to serve corporate polluters that are wasting our water...