25% of data centers worldwide are located in areas experiencing water shortages for more than a month per year
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About 25% of the world's 9,347 confirmed data centers—2,315 facilities—are located in areas where water demand exceeds supply for at least one month a year, according to a study published October 6 in Environmental Science & Technology by researchers from the Carnegie Institution for Science and Stanford University. The analysis matched data center locations against monthly regional water supply and demand using 2001–2010 hydrological baselines and roughly 50km grid cells, and covered both AI-specific and general data centers. The finding signals that water scarcity, not just power availability, is a growing siting and operational risk for data center operators and their utilities as AI-driven capacity expands. The researchers caution that the overlap does not mean facilities have actually suffered outages or water shortages.
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