# US # datacenters tripled their # water footprint in 10 years ... and those are figures from the start of the # AI boom. It can only be worse now. Silo-ed reporting isn't helping Datacenters in Ameri
# US # datacenters tripled their # water footprint in 10 years ... and those are figures from the start of the # AI boom. It can only be worse now. Silo-ed reporting isn't helping Datacenters in America used about 17B gallons of water during 2023, triple the amount they used a decade earlier in 2014, according to Congressional Research Service (CRS). 2023 is the year AI-driven infrastructure build