When Brazil's Taquari River threatens to overflow, the Municipality of Muçum no longer waits and watches — it knows. Using ...

Lake Powell has hit its lowest-ever level at the start of summer, raising concerns about hydroelectric power and the Colorado ...

AI data centre growth is clashing with U.S. groundwater, as proposed sites over the Ogallala Aquifer raise water concerns.

Australia’s data centre rush now rivals the mining boom. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman last week said Australia could become a “data centre capital of the world”. This would come at an ...

Co-lead author Xiao Yang from Southern Methodist University said new satellite technology allows researchers to monitor water ...

Recent data highlights the worsening strain on the drought-stricken Colorado River system.

Artificial intelligence systems rely on powerful servers inside massive AI data centers that generate significant heat during operation, which directly contributes to rising water usage. As workloads ...

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In spring 2026, social media users spread a rumor that a new data center in Utah would use about 16 billion gallons of water a year and that the center would be 2.7 times the size of Manhattan. Utah ...

Researchers designed an energy-efficient device that produces drinking water from seawater using an evaporation process driven largely by the sun. Researchers at the University of Waterloo have ...

One argument often used to quell concerns about the rising energy and resource demand of data centres is that artificial intelligence (AI) models will need less in the future as they improve and ...

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