The data-center economy is booming in California, and Gov. Gavin Newsom doesn’t want to slow it down. The governor vetoed a bill on Saturday that would have provided more transparency around the water usage of data centers, which regularly require millions of gallons of fresh water to cool their computers. … The bill, AB 93, would have required data centers applying for business licenses to disclose to their water supplier how much water they expected to use. For existing data centers, it would have required a disclosure of annual water use to renew a business license.

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