Depending on the data center’s size and climate zone, water consumption can reach millions of liters per year. In water-scarce areas, this high demand creates competition with other water users and ...

Data center companies and city officials have ... The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources issues permits for high-capacity water users. An agency spokeswoman wrote in an email that the ...

The city said its current biggest user pumps about 12.5 million gallons of water a day, about a quarter of the city’s capacity. That’s far more water than the Google data center would use.