City officials began weighing whether to allow data centers in the City, with discussion focusing on the facilities’ significant demands on electricity and water infrastructure as well as how they should be defined and regulated. The Housing, Homelessness and Planning Committee on Wednesday received a staff presentation outlining what data centers are, how they operate and the potential impacts they could have if permitted locally. … Officials underscored the scale of resources required to operate such facilities. A 10-megawatt data center can consume roughly the same amount of electricity as 8,000 households and use water equivalent to about 120 households annually, depending on cooling methods.

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• The Denver Gazette (Colo.): Energy constraints loom larger than water for Colorado AI boom, experts say​