Tech industry faces water issues; seeks innovative solutions

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It’s not just the agricultural sector that is facing drought issues.

Relying on data from Virginia Tech, CNBCOpens in a new tab. reports that “the average data center could use 300,000 gallons of water to cool itself — the same water consumption as 100,000 homes.”

Data centers have relied on water as a cheap way to cool the heat produced by massive servers, but ongoing drought is making the tech industry rethink the common cooling method.

According to CNBCOpens in a new tab., Microsoft and Meta (Facebook) are among the tech industries looking at innovations to conserve water.  Some, such as Cyrus One in Phoenix, are using more expensive cooling methods.

There are about 1,800 data co-location centers in the United States.

Deborah

Since 1995, Deborah has owned and operated LegalTech LLC with a focus on water rights. Before moving to Arizona in 1986, she worked as a quality control analyst for Honeywell and in commercial real estate, both in Texas. She learned about Arizona's water rights from the late and great attorney Michael Brophy of Ryley, Carlock & Applewhite. Her side interests are writing (and reading), Wordpress programming and much more.

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