Amazon, Google and Microsoft are building datacentres in water-scarce parts of five continentsAmazon, Microsoft and Google are operating datacentres that use vast amounts of water in some of the world’s driest areas and are building many more, an investigation by SourceMaterial and the Guardian has found.With Donald Trump pledging to support them, the three technology giants are planning hundreds of datacentres in the US and across the globe, with a potentially huge impact on populations already living with water scarcity. Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/09/big-tech-datacentres-water
Author : Luke Barratt, Costanza Gambarini and data graphics by Andrew Witherspoon and Aliya Uteuova
Publish date : 2025-04-09 11:30:00
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Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas
