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The Hidden Cost of AI: How Data Centers Are Straining Water, Power, and Communities

Editor’s Note: This is the second of two Dispatches on AI data centers; read the previous article, by Alefiya Presswala, here. The residents of Saline Township, Michigan, are upset. Soon, construction will begin on a 2.2 million-square-foot data center located just outside the small rural town, which will ultimately serve two Big Tech companies: Oracle […]

Febbraio 6, 2026
Google on Christmas Island: Data Centres and Imminent Militarisation

Google has become something of a fixture in digital infrastructure in the Pacific. In late 2023, Canberra announced a joint project with the US, Google and Vocus, an Australian digital infrastructure firm, to deliver the A$80 million South Pacific Connect initiative. The object: to link Fiji and French Polynesia to Australia and North America, with […]

Novembre 12, 2025
Draining Practices: Amazon, Water Consumption and Data Centres

Amazon, ruthless, mean spirited, soulless and wedded to the obscene profit margin, is also in the business of habitual deception. When it comes to the use of water for its thirsty data centres, this is most telling. In its aggressive push towards artificial intelligence, more are set for construction. When one considers that, in 2021 […]

Novembre 3, 2025
Water Wars: Cooling the Data Centres

Water. Data centres. The continuous, pressing need to cool the latter, which houses servers to store and process data, with the former, which is becoming ever more precious in the climate crisis. Hardly a good comingling of factors. Like planting cotton in drought-stricken areas, decisions to place data hubs in various locations across the globe […]

Agosto 6, 2023

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