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This story was originally published b<\/em>y\u00a0the<\/em>\u00a0Guardian\u00a0and\u00a0is reproduced here as part of the\u00a0<\/em>Climate Desk\u00a0collaboration.<\/em><\/p>

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A record-shattering <\/span>drought has racked much of the United States. But the\u00a0artificial intelligence\u00a0industry is pushing ahead regardless, with the majority of planned data centers set to be built in drought-ridden locations, a Guardian<\/em> analysis has found.<\/p>\n

About two-thirds of upcoming data centers, which typically require a large amount of water to operate, are set to be built in places that have been among the driest in the country over the past year.<\/p>\n

Of 809 planned data centers, 517 are in locations that have been in drought conditions throughout the past year, according to data from\u00a0Cleanview\u00a0and the federal government, which\u00a0grades drought\u00a0across four levels of severity. A similar proportion of existing data centers are already situated in drought-affected areas.<\/p>\n

More than 60 percent of the contiguous US is currently at varying stages of\u00a0drought, the largest expanse for spring\u00a0in modern records, with a particularly severe lack of rain and snow in the Southeast and West desiccating\u00a0croplands\u00a0and raising\u00a0fears\u00a0of a disastrous wildfire season.<\/p>\n

Scientists\u00a0have\u00a0determined\u00a0that the climate crisis, caused by the burning of fossil fuels, is worsening the duration and intensity of droughts in the US.<\/p>\n

But a stampede of new data centers are adding extra demands via their hefty energy and water requirements. Large data centers, some the size of small towns, can\u00a0require\u00a0up to 5 million gallons of water a day, equivalent to the water use of up to 50,000 people, in order to provide cooling to arrays of humming networked computers.<\/p>\n

Overall, the multiplying data centers are set to demand\u00a0as much as\u00a073 billion gallons of water a year by 2028, up from about 17 billion gallons in 2023. Each 100-word AI prompt uses up roughly a half-liter of water due to the cooling needs of data centers, researchers have\u00a0estimated.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe AI industry is sprinting as fast as it can to gain market dominance, and the rest of us have to deal with a great increase in water demand in places already in drought,\u201d said Christopher Dalbom, an expert in water resources law at Tulane University. \u201cEven if there wasn\u2019t climate change, we\u2019d be feeling the effects of droughts more acutely, because water demand is going up and up, to feed more people and water more lawns and crops. There isn\u2019t enough water to go around. Now with this explosion of data centers, I think a crunch point is inevitable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Companies such as Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon are pouring billions of dollars into new data centers, with developers often drawn to dry, sparsely populated areas, due to the lower cost of land and generous\u00a0tax breaks. Arid climates are also thought to cause the least amount of corrosion to equipment over time.<\/p>\n

One of the world\u2019s largest data centers, a complex twice the size of Manhattan, was controversially approved\u00a0last month\u00a0in a Utah county that has been deep in drought since summer last year. Meanwhile, Walla Walla county in Washington, site of a\u00a0planned\u00a0Amazon data center, has also been overwhelmingly in drought since July of last year.<\/p>\n

In Texas, two of the largest new data centers are arriving in counties\u2014Pecos and\u00a0Carson\u2014recently parched by drought. Data centers could account for 9 percent of Texas\u2019s total water use by 2040, researchers recently\u00a0calculated, with the state\u2019s water development board forecasting Texas will have to deal with rising overall demand and falling supply of water in the decades ahead.<\/p>\n

While an immediate water shortage is unlikely, hard choices will have to be made to avoid future clashes over water access, according to Dalbom. \u201cWhen we get into a situation where there\u2019s a limited amount of water available, are we going to limit water to residents and businesses before data centers?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the eastern US, we have always assumed an abundance of water, so the legal systems aren\u2019t set up for shortages. We can\u2019t just assume that people aren\u2019t going to be asked to reduce their water use, while data centers and energy won\u2019t be.\u201d<\/p>\n

Concerns over water use, as well as rising energy bills, have stirred local\u00a0opposition\u00a0to a rash of data center projects, causing some developments to be curtailed or canceled. These concerns have become a political headache for Republicans\u2014Donald Trump has been a vocal\u00a0supporter\u00a0of the AI industry\u2014with much of the opposition coming from rural, more conservative areas.<\/p>\n

\u201cRanchers are being told to be conservative with water, to not waste water, and now there\u2019s a new competing interest able to get near unlimited access to water,\u201d said Andrew Coppin, chief executive of Ranchbot, a company that helps ranchers track their water use. \u201cThe concerns from farmers are real and justified. Data centers are flavor of the month now, but we wouldn\u2019t make the choice to only be able to have a shower on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays. I mean, ChatGPT is a pretty nice tool, but most people would prefer to have a beef steak if they had to choose.\u201d<\/p>\n

Data center developers say the industry\u2019s current water use is still just a fraction of what much larger consumers, primarily agriculture, already take, causing growing strain on key sources\u00a0such as the Colorado River. Even the irrigation of golf courses and lawns\u00a0sucks up more water\u00a0than data centers.<\/p>\n

\u201cData center operators work closely with local authorities to ensure compliance with all applicable rules and regulations and to ensure operations do not stress local water supplies,\u201d said Dan Diorio, vice-president of state policy at the Data Center Coalition. \u201cThe industry is actively prioritizing responsible water use through operational best practices and innovative development strategies, often collaborating with local authorities and conservation organizations on water restoration and reclamation projects. Data center operators are among the few private sector industries actively investing in local water infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n

The sector claims it is making\u00a0progress\u00a0to replace standard evaporative cooling with more efficient technologies such as closed-loop cooling, whereby the same coolant, such as water or glycol, is continually piped among the servers to absorb their heat.<\/p>\n

However, while such cooling systems save water, they need more energy to run. This power typically comes from fossil fuels, which unlike cleaner forms of energy require copious amounts of water to generate electricity.<\/p>

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Such a trade-off is evident at Meta\u2019s huge proposed data center, called Hyperion after the father of the sun in Greek mythology,\u00a0in Louisiana. While the facility will use closed-loop cooling, it will also\u00a0need the energy input\u00a0of 10 gas-fired power plants that will use large amounts of water as well as emit planet-heating emissions.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will be an issue for farmers near the data center and if more data centers are approved to draw down the same aquifer you get a death by a thousand cuts,\u201d said Dalbom. \u201cYou may see the water table going down so wells will have to be deeper to access the groundwater. There will still be water there but cost more to access.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meta said that it will prioritize on-site water efficiency to the extent that its water use will be less than if the land was used for agriculture purposes.<\/p>\n

\u201cMeta estimates the data center will use as much as 1 billion gallons of water per year, drawing it from an aquifer currently used for agriculture, not from the community\u2019s drinking water,\u201d a company spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n

The overall water impact of AI is far larger than data centers themselves, however. A January\u00a0study\u00a0found that data centers will be responsible for just 4 percent of the 30 trillion gallons of extra water that will be needed, globally, for AI expansion by the midpoint of this century. Power generation and semiconductor fabrication for AI will suck up much more water than the data centers themselves, the report states.<\/p>\n

\u201cData centers are the most visible element to people but they are only part of the picture,\u201d said Albert Cho, chief strategy officer at\u00a0Xylem, the company behind the study. Cho said that data centers\u2019 water use will remain smaller than other large sectors, such as agriculture, and use of renewable energy and reduced water waste will help reduce demand.<\/p>\n

\u201cWater tends not to be the top-line consideration,\u201d when data center sites are chosen, Cho said, but he added:\u201cI think there is an emerging consensus among the major hyper-scalers about the importance of water stewardship.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet the public backlash has been so strong\u2014polling\u00a0shows\u00a070 percent of Americans don\u2019t want to live next to a data center\u2014that some states are considering new restrictions. California, Michigan and Iowa, for example, are mulling bills to require operators to submit regular reports on water use while others, such as South Carolina and Kansas, may force developers to use closed-loop cooling systems. Lawmakers in New York have gone further, with\u00a0plans\u00a0for an outright moratorium on data centers.<\/p>\n

In Utah, the state\u2019s governor, who last year asked residents to\u00a0pray\u00a0for rain amid a deep drought, has attempted to reassure voters that the enormous new Stratos data center will not endanger the Great Salt Lake, which\u00a0was already shrinking\u00a0due to water overuse and rising global temperatures. A group opposing the county approval of Stratos is aiming to overturn this decision via a public referendum.<\/p>\n

The data center is backed by Kevin O\u2019Leary, a Canadian businessman who has featured on TV shows such as Shark Tank and is a keen supporter of Trump. O\u2019Leary has, without evidence, accused opponents of Stratos of being paid protesters or in league with the Chinese Communist party.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere could not be a worse advocate for this project than Kevin O\u2019Leary, who has been absolutely dismissive of people in\u00a0Utah\u00a0again and again,\u201d said Ben Abbott, an ecologist at Brigham Young University and the executive director of Grow the Flow, a Utah environmental group.<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t found a single person in favor of this,\u201d he added. \u201cIt has brought together urban and rural communities, farmers and environmentalists, linking arms against this. I think this project is mortally wounded as a result.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Great Salt Lake is \u201cheaded for an all-time low\u201d and the massive 9 gigawatts of power needed for Stratos, as well as its cooling systems, will probably push the ecosystem into further water deficit, Abbott said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere couldn\u2019t be a worse time to do this,\u201d Abbott said of the Stratos project. \u201cClimate change is causing important hydrological shifts and here in the west we have a less stable water supply due to the mega-drought. But, more importantly, we are also harvesting the fruits of a century of water overuse.\u201d<\/p>\n

O\u2019Leary\u2019s case for the project is that it would be a big economic win, bringing jobs and tax revenue to rural parts of the state while helping the US win on AI in its rivalry with China. Last week he agreed to make cuts to the scale of the project after\u00a0pressure from state lawmakers\u00a0and\u00a0said in a post on X\u00a0that he was \u201cworking around the clock to address every issue raised, from water usage and environmental impact to power generation and community benefits.\u201d<\/p>\n

A\u00a0lawsuit has also been filed against the project\u00a0brought by five local residents and a progressive group.<\/p>\n

Worldwide, three-quarters of people\u00a0could face\u00a0drought impacts by 2050 all while data centers use 2.5 trillion gallons of water in the coming decade, enough to meet the drinking water needs of the planet\u2019s human population for over a year, the UN has estimated.<\/p>\n

Even when some withdrawn water is recycled by data centers, \u201clarge-scale withdrawals can strain aquifers and river systems, particularly in arid or groundwater-depleted regions,\u201d a recent UN report\u00a0warned.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to rethink our relationship with water because at the moment there is just this unrestricted demand everywhere,\u201d said Abbott. \u201cWe are in systemic water deficit almost everywhere on the planet.\u201d<\/p>

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