Why Worry About Water?

January 24, 2024. Nature: Rapid groundwater decline and some cases of recovery in aquifers globally

August 28, 2023. New York Times: America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow

January 2, 2024. Virginia Tech News: Study: From NYC to D.C. and beyond, cities on the East Coast are sinking

2023. Clean Technica: Arizona Limits New Construction Around Phoenix Due To Lack Of Groundwater

October 7, 2024. LAist: California’s new water recycling rules turn wastewater to tapwater. What this means for you

November 14, 2023. Atlanta Regional Commission: Tri-State Water Wars Overview

March 6, 2024. CNN: With new plans, Colorado River states draw battle lines over who should bear the brunt of future water cuts

December 7, 2024. The Kansas City Star: What is the Ogallala Aquifer and why is it running out of water?

July 25, 2025. ProPublica: The Drying Planet

September 23, 2024. Yale Climate Connections: How cities run dry

Why Do Data Centers Use Drinking Water?

March 18, 2024. The Register: Nvidia turns up the AI heat with 1,200W Blackwell GPUs

June 11, 2024. Fierce Network: Data center operators want to run chips at higher temps. Here’s why.

March 4, 2024. American Society of Civil Engineers: Engineers often need a lot of water to keep data centers cool

July 14, 2025. BBC World Service: How AI uses our drinking water

What Role Does Generative AI Play?

September 11, 2023. PCMag: Big Tech Had a Water Problem Long Before ChatGPT

April 6, 2023. arXiv: Making AI Less "Thirsty": Uncovering and Addressing the Secret Water Footprint of AI Models

February 25, 2025. Eat Your Frog: The fallacy of closed loop cooling systems

April 28, 2023. UC Riverside News: AI programs consume large volumes of scarce water

April 8, 2025. US EPA: Basic Information about Water Reuse

Data Center Water Consumption