Data center guzzled 30 million gallons of water and nobody noticed for months

Ars Technica
By Ashley BelangerMay 11, 2026, 4:37 pm129 pts
A curious case in Georgia serves as a warning for many parts of the US hastily approving data center developments without first updating their water systems to better monitor for severe upticks in usage. On Friday, Politico reported that one of the country's biggest data center developments had guzzled nearly…

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