Growing data-center demand at odds with Colorado climate goals
… The two impacts of data centers drawing the most concern in Colorado are the growing demand for power and impact it could have on the power grid and the need for millions of gallons of water by data centers, primarily for cooling. … While Colorado and the West have suffered a 20-year drought and there is haggling over the future of the dwindling Colorado River, a hyperscale data center with evaporative cooling can, according to Dglt, use more than 200 million gallons of water a year, about 550,000 gallons a day — enough to supply 1,200 households of four to five people for a year.