{"id":212230,"date":"2026-05-11T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T20:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/data-center-used-30-million-gallons-of-water-without-initially-paying\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T16:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T20:45:10","slug":"data-center-used-30-million-gallons-of-water-without-initially-paying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/data-center-used-30-million-gallons-of-water-without-initially-paying\/","title":{"rendered":"Data center used 30 million gallons of water without initially paying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2026\/05\/data-center-used-30-million-gallons-of-water-without-initially-paying\/\">Data center used 30 million gallons of water without initially paying<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2026\/05\/data-center-used-30-million-gallons-of-water-without-initially-paying\/\">https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2026\/05\/data-center-used-30-million-gallons-of-water-without-initially-paying\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-11 16:37:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"arstechnica.com\">arstechnica.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Over 120 organizations cautioned Congress against hurried data center development emphasizing the equal severity of rising water consumption as electricity bills.<\/li>\n<li>Data centers, particularly in drought-prone areas, can strain local water supplies essential for drinking, agriculture, and ecosystems because of their large water usage and the use of toxic chemicals in closed-loop systems. <\/li>\n<li>Advocacy groups suggested comprehensive environmental reviews as a preventative measure and oppose any legislation that would expedite data center construction.<\/li>\n<li>Some previous attempts to protect water resources have faced resistance, exemplified by a failed attempt of a hyperscale data center in Utah to transfer substantial water resources.<\/li>\n<li>The Salt Lake Tribune warned that neglecting residents&#8217; concerns regarding water, electric bills, air quality, and quality of life could severely damage public trust in officials.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data center used 30 million gallons of water without initially paying https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2026\/05\/data-center-used-30-million-gallons-of-water-without-initially-paying\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-11&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":212231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2191236730-1152x648.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212232,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212230\/revisions\/212232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}