Interesting read. I hadn’t realized that data centers were major consumers of water.
Tech companies in the past have refused to disclose information about individual centres’ energy and water consumption, claiming that such data was a trade secret.
A “trade secret”? Really? Gonna have to call bullshit on that one.
Over the last couple of years, Google, Meta and Microsoft have started publishing their total water use across their operations, but they do not break the number down by business unit nor use standardised metrics.
Because OF COURSE they don’t. They wouldn’t be the tech giants we love to hate unless they were unnecessarily difficult.