Data center energy and water needs raise concerns
Data center companies want to triple Nevada’s energy capacity to meet the power demands of a rapidly growing industry. … But the new demand comes at an awkward time for Nevada. Water access in the state is under severe threat by a dwindling Colorado River. Water by the hundreds of millions of gallons is commonly used by data centers to effectively cool the hard working computers. While a law to ban the most water wasteful centers — referred to as evaporative cooling — was shot down in 2024, no such data centers have been approved since February of last year.
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